Rajasthan High Court Grants Bail To Cyber Fraud Accused Subject To Disclosure Of Crypto Holdings, Digital Wallets
While granting bail in a cyber-fraud case, Rajasthan High Court prohibited the applicants from obtaining/using any new SIM, phone; opening new bank account; or creating any social medial account, domain name or website without prior intimation to the Investigating Officer. The bench of Justice Ravi Chirania further directed the accused persons against using any VPN, TOR Browser, Proxy Server...
While granting bail in a cyber-fraud case, Rajasthan High Court prohibited the applicants from obtaining/using any new SIM, phone; opening new bank account; or creating any social medial account, domain name or website without prior intimation to the Investigating Officer.
The bench of Justice Ravi Chirania further directed the accused persons against using any VPN, TOR Browser, Proxy Server or any other form of anonymous network or identity masking technology.
Apart from the above, the Court also sought an affidavit from the accused persons, with details that included,
- Movable and immovable assets, including land, vehicles, bank accounts, digital wallets, Cyptocurrency holdings, allegedly used in commission of offence;
- All electronic devices in their possession including hard disks and pen drives with their IMEI numbers;
- All social medial accounts, email accounts, domain registrations, websites and online platforms operated or used by the accused persons.
For context, the applicants were implicated in an FIR filed under BNS and Information Technology Act, alleging cheating by impersonation and extortion.
It was argued on their behalf that they had no criminal antecedents of similar nature, and no complaint was registered against them on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal (“1930 Portal”).
The Court took into account the nature of allegations, and the fact of no similar criminal antecedents, including absence of complaint on the 1930 portal, and granted bail to the applicants.
Apart from imposing other conditions, the applicants were asked to submit an affidavit within 15 days, for furnishing the aforementioned information.
Further, they were prohibited from using/obtaining any new SIM, phone, or opening new account, as well as creating any social media account/domain name/website, without prior information to the IO.
Accordingly, the bail application was disposed of.
Title: Maksood & Ors. v State of Rajasthan
Citation: 2026 LiveLaw (Raj) 259