The High Court of Karnataka has directed maintenance of Register of Sureties (RoS) in all the courts across State while issuing guidelines to prevent instances of production of fake sureties in anticipatory bail, regular bail, and other cases before courts.
The court said that the names and details of the sureties by noting down the crime number, name of the police station, name of the accused, the name and full particulars of the sureties to be maintained in the case information software used by the courts by creating a module for all the courts to maintain a RoS, which would be common for all district courts in the State.
Justice Suraj Govindaraj issued the direction while hearing a petition filed by a person, whose property was given as a surety in a bail matter by creating fake documents without his knowledge and he came to know about it only when the authorities put his property on sale, as the accused in the criminal case had defaulted the bail condition.
