New Delhi: White-collar crime accused cannot be allowed to treat courts and probe agencies as “instruments to play around with”, the Supreme Court observed while directing the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) to trace and secure Ravi Uppal, the absconding co-founder of the Mahadev betting app.

Uppal, who is evading law enforcement agencies in India, reportedly fled Dubai, where he was under surveillance, to an undisclosed location forcing the UAE authorities to initiate steps for closure of his extradition proceedings. ADVERTISEMENT

Taking serious note of Uppal’s evading the law enforcement agencies the bench of Justice M M Sundresh and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma said: “This shocks our conscience and the court has to do something about it.”

“For kingpins like him, the courts and inve

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