The plea, filed through advocate P N Razdan, also sought responses from the Income Tax department and the Enforcement Directorate
Economists have long had a notion that psychological factors affect investor decisions
The cryptocurrency has dropped 5.6% since late Friday, and at one point extended its slide from last week's record to as much as 29%
Bitcoin is up more than 500 percent so far this year
Zimbabweans turning to Bitcoin as local dollars collapse; Harare Bitcoin price almost twice as much as elsewhere in the world; cryptocurrencies used for overseas payments
Despite losing almost 7 percent this week, bitcoin is still up more than 600 percent so far this year
Segwit2x was supposed to be the second step in a broad two-step process to enhance transaction capacity
The introduction of Bitcoin futures contracts will allow investors to manage this risk, and make it safer to hold and trade in Bitcoin
As prices for the cryptocurrency skyrocket, investors and pundits are increasingly taking sides
According to market experts, banning cryptocurrency dealers or exchanges would not work
Coinbase Inc added more than 100,000 users in the past 24 hours
Other bankers have also expressed scepticism about the currency
CME Chief Executive Officer Terry Duffy said that the firm's job is to "manage risk, not decide what the price of a product is"