HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.5491 OF 2010 Dated : 13.08.2010 Between : B.V.Goud … Petitioner A n d The State of A.P. & another … Respondents HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO CRIMINAL PETITION No.5491 OF 2010 ORDER: This Criminal Petition under Section 482 Cr.P.C. is filed by the petitioner being aggrieved by the letter dated 10.02.2010 of the first respondent to the second respondent in connection with crime No.21 of 2010 of Bajpe Police Station, Mangalore. The first respondent-Police addressed the impugned letter to the second respondent-Bank to freeze the funds of the petitioner lying in S.B. A/c.No.52192186714 to the tune of Rs.6 lakhs. In spite of issuance of legal notice by the petitioner to the bank to release the funds, there is no response. Hence, he filed the preset complaint. Heard. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the seizure of account was neither intimated to the petitioner nor to the Magistrate concerned and since because of the same, petitioner is unable to take amounts from his account. In these circumstances, this Court is of the view that the investigating officer should have informed the seizure of account to the petitioner as well as to the Magistrate. In view of the same, the investigating officer is directed to intimate the seizure of account to the petitioner and also to the concerned Magistrate where FIR is pending. On such intimation, the petitioner is at liberty to approach the Magistrate by way of filing an appropriate application for appropriate remedy. With above observation, the Criminal Petition is disposed of. ________________________ JUSTICE RAJA ELANGO Dated : 13.08.2010 sur