Money Laundering bail condition: request to live outside trial jurisdiction and attend virtually denied; bail condition retained.

Petitioner sought modification of an interim bail condition requiring residence within the trial courts jurisdiction and furnishing a local address, requesting return to a different city and virtual participation. Court analysed the asserted grounds, including adequacy of medical treatment at the current place of custody, and found no cogent basis to relax the jurisdictional residence requirement. Consequently the request for waiver or modification of the bail condition was refused and the application to permit relocation and virtual attendance was dismissed, maintaining the existing interim bail conditions.

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Issues: Whether the bail condition requiring the petitioner to remain within the jurisdiction of the trial Court and furnish his local address should be waived to permit return to his residence outside the jurisdiction and participation by virtual mode.

Analysis: The petitioner had been granted interim bail solely on medical grounds, with an express condition to remain within the trial Court's jurisdiction and to provide his current address to the trial Court, investigating officer and local police. The petitioner seeks modification/waiver of that condition to permit residence in another city and virtual participation, undertaking to attend physically when required. The Court contrasted the present interim, medical-bail context with a cited Supreme Court order that set aside a residence condition in a regular-bail context; the Court found the ratio of that precedent distinguishable because the earlier decision involved regular bail on merits whereas the present bail is interim and medically motivated. The Court noted the petitioner is receiving adequate treatment within the jurisdiction and has not shown inadequate medical facilities or other cogent grounds to justify altering the interim bail condition.

Conclusion: The prayer for waiver/modification of the bail condition is rejected and the application is dismissed.

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