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SC flags foreign nationals fleeing on fake sureties, seeks govt, UIDAI replies

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November 21, 2025

The Supreme Court has sounded the alarm over a pattern of foreign nationals securing bail on the basis of dubious sureties and then disappearing, calling upon the Union government and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to spell out existing mechanisms to verify the genuineness of surety documents.

- Utkarsh Anand

The court noted that in at least 38 cases probed by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and nine cases investigated by the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), foreign nationals, particularly from Nigeria and Nepal, had absconded after furnishing sureties that later turned out to be fake.

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