SC seeks affidavit from Google India if location-sharing can be a bail condition

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday asked Google India to file a detailed affidavit explaining the technical aspects of dropping a PIN, in the context of putting it as a condition for granting bail to an accused person.

A two-judge SC bench comprising Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan also said that it would later examine whether a condition that the accused continues to provide the investigators with such detailed information about their whereabouts are likely to infringe upon the individual’s right to privacy. In 2017, a nine-judge Constitution bench had declared that the Right to Privacy was a fundamental right.