Prayagraj, Sept. 29 -- The Allahabad High Court on Tuesday rejected the third bail plea of Chinese national Zeng Deye, who is accused of illegally extracting PCB microchips and silicon from mobile phone scrap and smuggling them abroad.

The court, while considering the seriousness of the allegations, their potential impact on national economic interests and the possibility of the accused fleeing the country, declined to grant him bail. It also directed the trial court to expedite the proceedings.

The order was passed by a single-judge bench of Justice Krishna Pahal.

According to the prosecution, the case was registered in 2022 at the Beta-2 police station in Greater Noida. Deye and his associates allegedly entered and stayed in India ille...