{"id":382967,"date":"2026-05-01T16:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=382967"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:15:44","slug":"sharing-live-location-with-investigating-officer-cannot-be-imposed-as-bail-conditionkarhc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/05\/01\/sharing-live-location-with-investigating-officer-cannot-be-imposed-as-bail-conditionkarhc\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Sharing Live Location with Investigating Officer a Valid Bail Condition? Karnataka High Court answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\">\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Disclaimer:<\/span> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">This has been reported after the availability of the order of the Court and not on media reports so as to give an accurate report to our readers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Karnataka High Court:<\/span> While considering a petition filed under Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9001804220\" target=\"_blank\">483(1)(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">b<\/span>)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-9001804327\" target=\"_blank\">Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023<\/a> (BNSS) which sought modification of conditions imposed by the Principal District and Sessions Judge while granting anticipatory bail, a Single Judge Bench of M. Nagaprasanna, J., quashed the condition directing the petitioner to share his live location with the investigating officer (IO) stating that such condition could not be imposed for grant of bail.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%; font-weight: bold;\">Also read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/04\/25\/sc-courts-cannot-issue-surrender-directions-in-anticipatory-bail-hearing\/\" target=\"_blank\">High Court Cannot Direct Surrender While Rejecting Anticipatory Bail; Supreme Court Clarifies Law in Complaint Cases<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The petitioner was granted anticipatory bail for the offences punishable under Sections <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001561717\" target=\"_blank\">384<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001561861\" target=\"_blank\">507<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001561860\" target=\"_blank\">506<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001561652\" target=\"_blank\">34<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002726960\" target=\"_blank\">Penal Code, 1860<\/a> (IPC) and among the conditions imposed was one which required him to keep the location turned on in his mobile to be available to the IO.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court held that while other conditions could not be interfered with, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">the condition directing the petitioner to keep his location on, on his mobile and share the live location with the IO could not be imposed for grant of bail<\/span>. Thus, the Court quashed the said condition and disposed of the petition at hand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">[<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #632423;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Shashi Kumar<\/span> v. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">State of Karnataka<\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/8R35CBw8\" target=\"_blank\">2026 SCC OnLine Kar 2579<\/a>, decided on 22-4-2026<\/span>]<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Advocates who appeared in this case:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For the Petitioner:<\/span> Dilraj Jude Rohit Sequeira, Advocate<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">For the Respondent:<\/span> B.N. Jagadeesha, Addl. SPP<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #000080;\">Buy Penal Code, 1860 &nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebcwebstore.com\/product_info.php?products_id=1158\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebcwebstore.com\/product_info.php?products_id=1158\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"penal code, 1860\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-294601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-440x293.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860.jpg 886w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/penal-code-1860-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">In the present case, the petitioner was granted anticipatory bail with a condition to keep his location on, on his mobile and share the live location with the investigating officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67540,"featured_media":382970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[13011,2664,61498,70389,68448,103425,36400,11941,13961,71273,28334,103426,103427,58372],"class_list":["post-382967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-anticipatory-bail","tag-Bail","tag-bail-condition","tag-bns","tag-bnss","tag-condition-quashed","tag-conditional-bail","tag-crpc","tag-ipc","tag-justice-m-nagaprasanna","tag-karnataka-high-court","tag-live-location","tag-modification-of-bail-condition","tag-prearrest-bail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sharing live location with Investigating Officer cannot be imposed as bail condition: Kar HC | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karnataka High Court held that condition directing the petitioner to share his location with the Investigating Officer can not be imposed for grant of bail.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2026\/05\/01\/sharing-live-location-with-investigating-officer-cannot-be-imposed-as-bail-conditionkarhc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Is Sharing Live Location with Investigating Officer a Valid Bail Condition? 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