Vaithilingam v. the Chief Secretary to Government
Case brief
What is this about?
Madras High Court, W.P.No.17665 of 2025, decided 09.06.2025, D. Bharatha Chakravarthy, J. Petitioner Vaithilingam sought mandamus under Article 226 to transfer cyber-crime complaint proceedings (dated 11.03.2025 and 13.03.2025) regarding alleged misuse of his KYC documents in online fraud from the Station House Officer, Cyber Crime Police Station, Puducherry to the CBI, with a time frame fixed. State submitted the complaint was taken as a petition, enquired into, and closed as no offence was made out. Held: no question of transferring closed proceedings; petitioner free to take proceedings in the manner known to law against the closure; writ petition closed, no costs. Keywords: transfer of investigation, complaint closed after enquiry, KYC documents misuse, online fraud, Puducherry police, CBI.
What did the court decide?
No substantive relief; the petitioner's liberty was kept open to take proceedings, in the manner known to law, if aggrieved by the closing of his complaint; writ petition closed, no order as to costs.