The Madras High Court has refused to order defreezing of a Chennai-based bank account of an online trader of crypto currency who ended up getting mired in multiple cyber crime complaints lodged with the police in Telangana, Karnataka, Kerala, Gujarat and New Delhi.

Justice P. Velmurugan dismissed the petition filed by B. Kalyan, a software engineer now working in Bengaluru, after advocate Chevanan Mohan, representing HDFC Bank, told the court that the account was frozen following requests received from five different States.