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 In Gautam Navlakha Vs National Investigation Agency (CrA 510 Fo 2021) DB of Hon'ble Justice U U Lalit and KM Joseph has observed that in appropriate cases, the court can order house arrest under section 167 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, while ording house arrest court can consider criteria like age, health condition and the antecedents of the accused, the nature of the crime, the need for other reforms of custody and the ability to enforce the terms of the house Arrest. 

  In the Matter of Gautam Navlakha Vs National Investigation Agency : The Hon'ble Apex Court has held that remand order can only be challenged in case remand is absolutely illegal or the remand is afflicted with the vice of lack of jurisdiction, of it is passed in an absolutely mechanical manner.