Frozen Bank Accounts, Frozen Rights: How Far Can Police Go Under the BNSS?

Frozen Bank Accounts, Frozen Rights: How Far Can Police Go Under the BNSS? Police Powers, Proportionality and the Emerging Judicial Safeguards in Cybercrime Investigations The rapid growth of digital payments, online banking and cybercrime has created a difficult legal question: how far can investigating agencies go when they seek to freeze a bank account allegedly connected with a criminal transaction? For victims of cyber fraud, immediate preservation of suspected funds can be crucial. Money can move through multiple bank accounts within minutes, making prompt investigative action important. At the same time, an indiscriminate debit-freeze can completely disable an innocent person’s savings account or...

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