CWP No.15025 of 2011 (O&M) [1] IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH CWP No.15025 of 2011(O&M) Date of Decision: 02.11.2011 Radha wife of Sh. Ra Babu son of Prem Singh, R/o Adarsh Colony, near Tikli Factory, Muradabad (U.P.). ... Petitioner Versus State of Punjab through Director General of Police, Punjab at Chandigarh and others. ... Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE K. KANNAN Present:Mr. Madan Gupta, Advocate for the petitioner. Mr. Anil Kumar Sharma, Addl. AG, Punjab, for respondents No.1 to 4. Mr. Aalok Jagga, Advocate, for respondent No.5. ***** 1.Whether reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? YES/NO 2.To be referred to the reporters or not? YES/NO 3.Whether the judgment should be reported in the digest? YES/NO K. KANNAN, J. (Oral) 1 The grievance of the petitioner is that there is no case registered against her but she has been prevented from operating her bank account on alleged instructions from the police to the Union Bank of India arrayed as 4th respondent here. The bank cannot merely stop an account-holder from operating her account without appropriate direction from the Court for stopping the operations. The Investigating Agency, if it is of the view that the money standing to her credit in the CWP No.15025 of 2011 (O&M) [2] bank, is really the amount of her husband, who is an accused in a criminal case, it shall be open to the Investigating Agency to apply to the jurisdictional Magistrate before whom the case is pending for appropriate orders. The police cannot stop the operation of the account by issuing notice to the bank in the manner which has been done. Reserving to the police, the liberty to approach the criminal court of jurisdiction for appropriate directions, I allow the petition and quash the notice (Annexure P-2) issued by the police to the bank to prevent the operation of the account. 2. The police will have a week's time to take appropriate steps, if they are so advised, and bank shall not release the amount for the period of one week. 3. Copy of the order be issued dasti under the signature of the Reader of the Court. NOVEMBER 02, 2011 ( K. KANNAN ) Rajan JUDGE