BOMBAY HIGH COURT [Bytedance (India) Technology Pvt. Ltd Vs Union of India, Through The Secretary, Ministry of Finance]
This petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India challenges an order whereby the petitioner’s bank account has been provisionally attached under the provisions of Section 83 of the Central Goods and Services Act, 2017. The case of the petitioner is that the impugned provisional attachment is bad and illegal, as Section 83 would not confer any power on the authority to have successive attachments, as in the present case, initially an order dated 18 March, 2021 was issued provisionally attaching the bank account of the petitioner; thereafter, again on 25 March, 2022, an order of provisional attachment of the petitioner’s bank account was issued and now the impugned attachment order dated 17 March, 2023 has been issued. This court propose to dispose of this petition by continuing the ad-interim order.