LUCKNOW, Nov. 12 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court has asked the Centre to address cases where citizens become victims of cybercriminals and their accounts remain frozen indefinitely.

Dealing with a petition filed by a builder whose bank accounts were frozen after his son's Aadhaar details were allegedly misused by cybercriminals, the court impleaded the Union of India, Ministry of Home Affairs, as a respondent.

A division bench of Justice Rajan Roy and Justice Subhash Vidyarthi while hearing the plea filed by the builder recently observed that there has to be a mechanism to resolve such cases.

"...we would like the concerned Ministries/ Departments to come-up with a solution to such problems where gullible citizens are ...