The Supreme Court today made it clear that bail conditions cannot be 'fanciful, arbitrary or freakish'.
"Courts can curtail the freedom of the accused only to the extent required for imposing the bail conditions warranted by law.
Bail conditions cannot be so onerous as to frustrate the order of bail itself ...
Further, Google pin sharing as a feature for bail was declared redundant since it is not necessarily real-time tracking either.
"The (locating sharing) condition deserves to be deleted ..
The Supreme Court today made it clear that bail conditions cannot be 'fanciful, arbitrary or freakish'.
"Courts can curtail the freedom of the accused only to the extent required for imposing the bail conditions warranted by law. Bail conditions cannot be so onerous as to frustrate the order of bail itself ... The investigating agency cannot be permitted to continuously peep into the private life of the accused enlarged on bail, by imposing arbitrary conditions since that will violate the right of privacy of the accused, as guaranteed by ... Article 21".
A constant vigil cannot be kept on every movement through technology, it was stressed.
Further, Google pin sharing as a feature for bail was declared redundant since it is not necessarily real-time tracking either.
"The (locating sharing) condition deserves to be deleted .. In some cases, this Court may have imposed a similar condition. But in those cases, this Court was not called upon to decide the issue of the effect and legality of such a condition", the apex court stated in parting.
