France played the same trick in '98

It is not the first time that a European nation has allegedly gone back on a sovereign guarantee to return undertrials.

It is not the first time that a European nation has allegedly gone back on a sovereign guarantee to return undertrials.

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Two French nationals, facing a trial in the Kochi Galathee espionage case of 1995, who were allowed to go back to France for 45 days in 1998 on the basis of a sovereign guarantee tendered by the French ambassador in India, did not return.