HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR WRIT PETITION No.16131 of 2010 Date: December 27, 2011 Between: A. Satyanarayana … Petitioner And 1. The Reserve Bank of India, New Delhi, rep. by the Governor, RBI, New Delhi & 6 others. … Respondents * * * HON’BLE SRI JUSTICE VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR WRIT PETITION No.16131 of 2010 O R D E R: Nobody appears for the petitioner today also. However, the relief claimed for by the petitioner is now covered by the decision of the Supreme Court in ICICI Bank Ltd. V. Prakash Kaur [1] , wherein the banks were held not entitled to resort to any illegal or unconstitutional methods for recovery of arrears of loan amounts either by pressurizing the borrower through recovery agents or otherwise. This Court also considered similar request and disposed of the writ petition by following the aforesaid judgment vide orders in W.P. No.17870 of 2009 dated 22.12.2009. Accordingly the writ petition is disposed of directing respondents 2 to 7 not to resort to any unconstitutional or illegal methods for recovery of arrears of loan amounts. However, respondents 2 to 7 shall have liberty to recover the amounts as per due process of law. Subject to liberty aforesaid, the writ petition is disposed of. No costs. ____________________________ VILAS V. AFZULPURKAR, J. Date: December 27, 2011. BSB [1] (2007) 2 Supreme Court Cases 711