Mohammad Hamza Akhtar v. Union of India & Anr.
Case brief
What is this about?
W.P.(C) 18951/2025, Mohammad Hamza Akhtar v. Union of India & Anr., High Court of Delhi at New Delhi, decided 21.01.2026 by Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav, J (single judge). Keywords: jurisdiction of High Court; frozen/freezed bank account; HDFC Bank Limited (respondent no. 2); online financial fraud complaint; Tamil Nadu Police Department (respondent no. 3); National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal under aegis of Union of India; tenuous/nexus test; remedy lies before jurisdictional High Court; petition disposed of, no relief granted. No statute or case law cited in the order.
What did the court decide?
None; the petition stood disposed of with the observation that the petitioner will have to agitate its grievance before the jurisdictional High Court. ¶15