The Punjab and Haryana High Court while granting bail to a murder convict has directed him to “own and possess” a smartphone and share the number, as well as, his location with the local police, ...

NEW DELHI: Can an accused be forced to constantly share his live location through phone with police as a condition for grant of bail? The Supreme Court on Tuesday decided to adjudicate on the issue, ...

AmitAnand.Choudhary New Delhi: Terming the bail condition imposed on an accused to keep his Google location live round the clock and share it with an law enforcement agency so that it could track his ...

On Friday, the Supreme Court granted bail to activist and lawyer Arun Ferreira and trade unionist, activist and academic Vernon Gonsalves, in the Bhima Koregaon case. Both had been under detention for ...

Rapid technological advancements are taking place the world over, with limited utilisation in the realm of criminal justice so far. One example in India is the integration of the global positioning ...

The Supreme Court on July 8 held that requiring an accused to share his or her Google location PIN with the investigating officer to facilitate tracking of movement is a violation of the right to ...

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a bail condition allowing police to constantly track the movements of the accused and infringe on their privacy cannot be permitted. A bench comprising Justice ...

New Delhi: In a major ruling on Monday, the Supreme Court declared that courts cannot mandate an accused to share their Google pin location with authorities as a condition for granting bail. The ...

A location pin was not only likely to infringe the individual’s right to privacy but could also be misused, the bench said Dropping a Google Maps pin cannot be a condition of granting bail, the ...

The Supreme Court has sought information from Google India, inquiring whether the inclusion of its location-sharing feature on Maps, called ‘Google PIN’, as a condition for bail infringes the right to ...