Overview
- Justice Ravinder Dudeja found custodial interrogation unnecessary as the key video from Khan’s phone is already with the Bombay Police.
- Bail terms require a personal bond of Rs 30,000 with one surety, surrender of passport, cooperation with voice sampling, and no foreign travel without trial court permission.
- Khan was booked in April under BNS Section 79 and IT Act Section 67 following an FIR by Harsh Beniwal’s mother at the Delhi Cyber Police Station.
- The court warned that influencer content can be widely republished even after deletion and that speech crossing into insult or humiliation collides with the right to dignity.
- A trial court had rejected Khan’s anticipatory bail on August 5, and the criminal proceedings continue in the lower court.