India, July 22 -- The Bombay high court on Monday imposed a compensation of Rs.10,000 each on Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), the Gujarat chief commissioner, the chief commissioner of income tax (Mumbai), Union Bank of India, and the Gujarat commissioner of state tax for not responding effectively to the concerns of a petitioner whose identity was misused by frauds for running a shell company in Gujarat. Calling it a "very sad state of affairs", the court pulled up the authorities over their inaction in the identity theft case.

The incident dates back to 2019, when the petitioner, Vilas Prabhakar Lad, 51, who runs a provisional store in the city, received a notice in December for not paying rent for a property in Rajkot...