The Madras High Court Yesterday (August 16, 2024) refused to grant anticipatory bail to an individual who had been booked under the provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Information Technology Act of 2000 for having shared a blasphemous post against Prophet Muhammad on his Facebook page.
The Supreme Court of India has instructed Google India to clarify the privacy implications of requiring a Nigerian national to mark a PIN on Google Maps as a bail condition in a drug-related case. This comes after the Court expressed concerns about potential privacy infringement and directed the release of the accused on interim bail with modified conditions.