New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- The Delhi High Court has directed all authorities across the country not to allow any GST registration without biometric-based Aadhaar authentication henceforth, citing the continuing misuse of stolen or frozen PAN and Aadhaar details to create fraudulent GST registrations.

A Division Bench of Justice Anil Khetarpal and Justice Shail Jain said the authorities must take the issue with "all seriousness" as the practice was causing loss of government revenue and harassment of innocent citizens.

The Court also granted liberty to the authorities to place objections regarding any practical difficulty in implementing the direction.

The Court further directed the authorities to examine a set of suggestions placed before ...