NDPS bail safeguards for foreign nationals require statutory compliance, verified sureties and proportionate measures to prevent absconding.

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....NDPS bail for foreign nationals accused of offences involving commercial quantity remains subject to the statutory twin conditions, and incarceration alone does not displace them. Bail safeguards must protect Article 21 while reasonably securing attendance and preventing flight: passport deposit, FRRO registration, verified residence, disclosure of funds and bank accounts, embassy intimation, and ordinarily two genuine sureties may be required. Sureties must undergo pre-release scrutiny of identity, address and financial credentials; fabricated sureties may trigger departmental inquiry where officials failed to exercise reasonable care, and surety property may be subject to a lien or charge upon bond forfeiture. Interim Article 142 directions prescribe uniform safeguards pending action by competent authorities.....