Rajasthan High Court Reviews Batch of Writ Petitions Challenging Freezing of Bank Accounts by Cyber Crime Authorities. Petitions Seek Unfreezing of Accounts Frozen Across Multiple States and Involve Various Banks and Police Authorities.

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The matter before the High Court of Judicature for Rajasthan, Bench at Jaipur, comprises a batch of writ petitions. The provided text lists seventeen separate S.B. Civil Writ Petitions with their respective parties, indicating they are connected matters. The first petition, S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 2679/2026, is filed by Shree Balaji Enterprises through its proprietor Rahul Kumar Pareek against the Reserve Bank of India, Axis Bank Ltd, and the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Cyber Crime, Jaipur. The second petition, S.B. Civil Writ Petition No. 9498/2025, is filed by Santosh Kumar Jain against the State Bank of India, Federal Bank, Yes Bank, AU Small Finance Bank, and various police authorities from Gujarat, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, and Rajasthan. Other petitioners include M/s Master Indian Oil, Ramgopal Soni, KGN Goat Farm, Sanjay Jaiswal, Sikarwar Traders, Sharma Polymer And Trading, Niraj Bhatnagar, Usman Khan, Mrinal Sharma, Ashok Kumar Meena, Sabir, Ramesh Kumar Saini, Jay Verma, Ramchandra, and Shishram. The respondents across these petitions include multiple banks such as Axis Bank, State Bank of India, Federal Bank, Yes Bank, AU Small Finance Bank, Bank of Baroda, Kotak Mahindra Bank, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, Bank of Maharashtra, Indian Overseas Bank, Punjab National Bank, and Indusiand Bank, as well as various state and central government authorities and cyber crime police cells from Rajasthan, Gujarat, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Bihar, and Chennai. The nature of litigation appears to involve freezing of bank accounts by cyber crime authorities and banks, as suggested by the repeated appearance of cyber crime police respondents and bank branch managers. However, the provided text does not include the substantive legal reasoning, arguments, issues framed, or the final order of the court. It merely contains the cause title, party details, case numbers, and the header of the High Court. No specific legal provisions, precedents, or directions are mentioned. Therefore, the detailed factual background, legal issues, arguments, court's analysis, and decision cannot be extracted from the available text. The matter is pending or disposed of before the Rajasthan High Court Bench at Jaipur, but the outcome is not stated in the excerpt. The only dates mentioned are system-generated upload and download dates (20/08/2026 and 17/09/2026 respectively), which are not the judgment date. No judge, advocate, or citation details are provided. The text does not contain any paragraph references or judgment excerpts beyond the initial header and party names.

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