Delhi High Court: Prathiba M. Singh, J., opined that there appeared to be a need for some coordination between the Cyber Crime Cell of all Police Authorities and thus the Court directed Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs to call a meeting of all the Cyber Crime Cells in various states in order to have coordination between them for dealing with fraudulent transaction cases.
In the present case, Hetu Arora Sethi, ASC submitted that in a number of cases, banks did not answer queries raised by the Police for ensuring compliance of orders passed by Police Authorities or Courts.
The Court directed RBI to file a specific affidavit as to whether there were any guidelines which had been issued by it to banks in respect of queries raised by the Police and for ensuring compliance of any orders passed by police authorities or Courts. The Court also directed Banks to place their affidavits on the procedure they followed for replying to queries raised by the Police.
The Court opined that whenever any information was requested by the Cyber Crime Cells of police authorities, banks ought to respond to the same in a diligent manner.
Hetu Arora Sethi, ASC further submitted that in a number of cases, the ultimate accused were located in different states such as West Bengal, Bihar, Maharashtra etc., and it was difficult for the Delhi Police-Cyber Crime Cell to prosecute the cases in those states. The Court thus opined that there appeared to be a need for some coordination between the Cyber Crime Cell of all Police Authorities. The Court directed Joint Secretary, Ministry of Home Affairs to call a meeting of all the Cyber Crime Cells in various states in order to have some coordination between them for dealing with such fraudulent transaction cases.
The matter would next be listed on 01-02-2024.
[Dabur India Ltd v. Ashok Kumar, 2023 SCC OnLine Del 7465, Order dated 24-11-2023]
Advocates who appeared in this case :
For the Plaintiff: Anirudh Bakhru, Kripa Pandit, Tanmaya Mehta, Pravin Anand, Saif Khan, Rohil Bansal, Shobhit Agarwal, Deepank, Kushal Gupta, Mohd Umar, Devesh Ratan, Sidharth Chopra, Nitin Sharma, Yatin Garg, Ranjeet Singh, Vivek Ayyagari, Angad Makkar, M. J. Sudarshan, Ramya Aggarwal, Sohrab Mann, Vikrant Rana, Tanvi Bhatnagar, Rima Majumdar, Shilpi Sinha, Aaditya Vats, Vaishali Mittal, Shivang Sharma, Sagar Chandra, Shubhie Wahi, Ankita Seth, Sanya Kapoor, Shantanu Sahay, Imon Roy, Apoorv Bansal, Vibhav Mithal, Achyut Tiwari, Tanya Varma, Devyani Nath, Achuthan Sreekumar, Rohil Bansal, Sidharth Chopra, Nitin Sharma, Yatin Garg, Ranjeet Singh, Vivek Ayyagari, Angad Makkar, M. J. Sudarshan, Ramya Aggarwal, Sohrab Mann, Nikhil Sonker, Tanvi Bhatnagar, Rima Majumdar, Shilpi Sinha, Abhishek Singh, J. Amal Anand, Elvin Joshy, Alisha Sharma, Insha Mushtaq, Peeyoosh Kalra, C.A. Brijesh, Krisna Gambhir, Simranjot Kaur, Kapil Wadhwa, Vasanthi Hariharan, Dushyant Mahant, Urfee Roomi, Ayush Dixit, Meenakshi Ogra, Tarun Khurana, Rishi Vohra, Chhavi Panday, Raunaq Kamath, Sauhard Alung, Anuj Berry, Sourabh Rath, Vibhore Yadav, M. Gauri Pasricha, Advocates
For the Defendants: Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar, Manish Mohan, Anil Soni, Anurag Ahluwalia, Vineet Dhanda, Ravi Prakash, CGSC; Hetu Arora Sethi, ASC; Abhigyan Siddhant, G.P.; Dayan Krishnan, Darpan Wadhwa, Rajshekhar Rao, Senior Advocates; Yashvardhan Singh, Srish Kumar Mishra, Sagar Mehlawat, Alexander Mathai Paikaday, Kruttika Vijay, Aishwarya Kane, Alipak Banerjee, Parva Khare, Brijesh Ujjainwal, K.G. Gopalakrishnan, Nisha Mohandas, Shweta Sahu, Aishwarya Jain, Brijesh Ujjainwal, Apoorv Kurup, Kirti Dadheech, Akshay Goel, Shivam Narang, Lalit Kashyap, Shubhendu Anand, Piyush M. Dwivedi, Kushal Gupta, Mohd Umar, Prashant Prakash, Lakahmi Kruttika Vijay, Arjun Basra, Sarfaraz Khan, Abdul Wahid, Moazzam Khan, Akshita Jain, Naveen Kumar Jain, Mrinal Ojha, Debarshi Dutta, Anand Raja, Tanta Chaudhry, Shivam Tiwari, Samyak Bilala, Tine Abraham, Shivani Rawat, Mohanakrishna C., Kshipra Pyare, Harshil Wason, Varun Pathak, Shyamal Anand, Thejesh Rajendran, Tejpal Singh Rathore, Susmit Pushkar, Anchit Oswal, Gaurav Sharma, Naina Agarwal, Anuj Srivastava, Piyush Singhal, Paras Khurana, Himanshi Jain, Richa Kapoor, Tusharika Sharma, Sandesh Kumar, Amit Mahaliyan, Akshat Kaushik, Rohit Rattu, V. K Gupta, Sunil Shukla, Kaushiki Kashyap, Shikha Sarin, Paras Malhotra, Manish Paliwal, Himanshi Kaushik, Aditya Gupta, Aishwarya Sauhard Alung, Asvari Jain, Manasa Sundaraman C., Kshipra Pyare, Mansi Sood Trileyal, Swati Aggarwal, Binsy Susan, Aasish Samasi, Mohit Singh, Rahul Mourya, Danish Faraz Khan, Neel Mason, Vihan Dang, Aditi Umapathy, Ramesh Babu, Manisha Singh, Jagriti Bharti, Tanya Chowdhary, Ekta Choudhary, Anisha, Divyank Dutt Dwivedi, Abhigyan Siddhant, K.R. Sasiprabhu, Tushar Bhardwaj, G. Mirza, Vishesh Sharma, Sohit Choudhary, Prashant Prakash, Yukti Gupta, Aayush Kevlani, Deepika Kathuria, Abhishek Singh, Harshal Arora, Amee Rana, M.K. Singh, Samir Chugh, Asiya Khan, Chandrashekhar Chakalabbi, Aishwarya Hiremath, Varnik Kundaliya, Mayank Mehandra, Charu Tandon, Sarthak Kapoor, Raghav Tandon, Ramnish Khanna, Firoz Iqbal Khan, Rishabh Gupta, Abhishek Kumar Singh, Rishi Kapoor, Satish Rai, K.G. Gopalakrishnan, Nisha Mohandas, Ankur Prakash, Simran Gill, Yudhishthir Bhardwaj, Dhananjay, Amod Bidhuri, Saquib Siddiqui, Akshit Chaudhary, Rajiv Kumar Malik , Megha, Deepanshu Nainwal, Rahul Sharma, Praveen Kumar Jain, Shalini Jha, Shatrajit Banerji, Sumit Nagpal, Dolly Luthra, Aashta Sood, P.S. Sudheer, Anne Mathew, Asmita Kumar, Ritu Mishra, Hrithik Goyal, Lovleen Goyal, Shubhendu Anand, Akshat Kaushik, Piyush M. Dwivedi, Vivek Jain, Aastha Tiwari, Alipak K. Banerjee, Sahonwlah Farmani Ali, Santosh Kumar Rout, Pawan Kumar, Abhishek Chakraborty, Rajiv Kapur, Akshit Kapur, Tushar Bagga, Yashu Rustagi, Anupam Kumar Mishra, Keya Rawat, Neel Mason, Uday Singh Chopra, Saransh Saini, Ujjawal Bhargava, Yashika Kapoor, Meenakshi Dutta, Anupam Kumar Mishra, Gautam Harshwal, Ankit Rastogi, Saransh Saini, Vivek Jain. Aastha Tiwari, Yajur Bhalla, Deepak Samota, Sumer Ahuja, Binsy Susan, Shashank Mishra, Ritika Bansal, Swati Agarwal, Ananta Prasad Mishra, Gagan Gupta, Ravi Shankar Mahto, Advocates
