When an employee is suspended, generally a condition is imposed asking him to not to leave the headquarters without permission from the authorities. Here, headquarters would generally mean the city where he is posted. It is NOT his residential house. Therefore, it is not necessary for such a suspended employee to remain in the residential house for 24 hours. He can be anywhere in the city. Of course, he cannot leave the city (i.e., the headquarters) without permission from the authority.
Even if the senior officers check his presence in the residential house, he can justify that he was very much present in the same city and had gone out for some work. In such a case, normally, the suspended employee can be contacted on phone and he can go back to house within a reasonable time so that the senior officers can satisfy that he has not gone out of city without permission.
But, in any case, the requirement is NOT that he should remain in the residential house for 24 hours. He can be in the same city anywhere.
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