New Delhi, Nov 5: The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to trace and secure Ravi Uppal, co-founder of the Mahadev betting app, who reportedly fled from Dubai to an undisclosed location, evading law enforcement authorities.

A bench of Justices M.M. Sundresh and Satish Chandra Sharma expressed strong displeasure over Uppal’s continued evasion, observing that “white-collar crime accused cannot treat courts and probe agencies as instruments to play around with.”

“This shocks our conscience, and the court has to do something about it,” the bench remarked, while asking the ED to locate and secure the absconding accused.

The court was hearing Uppal’s plea challenging a Chhattisgarh High Court order directing him to join the trial in a money laundering case pend

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