<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Something fantastic that has happened with this judgement is that privacy, which was what was thought of as a `weak' right, has been strengthened in ways that i don't think anywhere in the world has seen. </span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Lets remind the judgement is an interim output of various petitions questioning Aadhaar , India's gigantic biometric resident identity number project and its constitutional validity <br><br>In short this is the gift of the campaigns against aadhaar to the people of India.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">That thought keeps me grinning. Efforts of many like us from 2009 onwards strated producing solid interim results. <br><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Anivar Aravind</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://anivar.net">https://anivar.net</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Mishi Choudhary <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mishi@softwarefreedom.org" target="_blank">mishi@softwarefreedom.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">In a momentous judgment delivered in the case of K. S Puttaswamy (Retd.)<br>
& Anr. v. Union of India & Ors. [Writ Petition (Civil) No. 494 of 2012]<br>
today, the Supreme Court of India affirmed that citizens have a<br>
fundamental right to privacy. The nine-judge Constitution bench<br>
comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) J.S Khehar, and Justices D.Y.<br>
Chandrachud, J. Chelameshwar, S.A. Bobde, A. Nazeer, R.K. Agrawal, R.F.<br>
Nariman, A.M. Sapre, and S.K. Kaul, held in a unanimous decision that<br>
Right to Privacy is protected as an intrinsic part of Right to Life and<br>
Personal Liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution and other freedoms<br>
guaranteed under Part III of the Constitution.<br>
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SFLC.in Board members were petitioners in this historic case.<br>
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The nine-judge Bench was tasked with answering the specific question of<br>
whether the previous Supreme Court judgments in M.P. Sharma v. Satish<br>
Chandra [AIR 1954 SC 300] (an eight-judge Bench) and Kharak Singh v.<br>
State of Uttar Pradesh [AIR 1963 SC 1295] (a six-judge Bench) were<br>
correct in holding that the Constitution of India does not envisage a<br>
fundamental right to privacy.<br>
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