The court order by the Delhi High Court has removed a bail condition imposed on an accused which required him to share his live location 24 × 7 with the Delhi Police (or the Investigating Officer) via Google. The accused, Harinder Bashishta, had been granted bail by the trial court on June 21, but the Additional Judge had added a condition that he continuously share his real‑time location with the police through Google. Bashishta challenged this condition before the High Court, arguing that the requirement was excessive and unwarranted.
The High Court, presided by Vikas Mahajan, accepted the plea and struck down the location‑sharing condition. In its decision, the Court relied on the ruling of the Supreme Court of India in the case Frank Vitus v. Narcotics Control Bureau, which categorically held that courts cannot impose bail conditions that mandate an accused to keep law‑enforcement agencies constantly informed about his movement from one place to another. The High Court observed that the additional‑judge had lacked legal basis to impose such a continuous surveillance condition as part of bail.
Accordingly, Justice Mahajan declared that the condition requiring the petitioner to “share his location 24 x 7 … through Google” was not sustainable, and ordered that it be deleted. The Court’s order effectively restores to the accused the liberty otherwise granted by bail, without subjecting him to 24‑hour tracking.
The case is titled HARINDER BASHISHTA v. STATE NCT OF DELHI.
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