Right to privacy-India

[Sam Lanfranco]

Babasaheb Ambedkar would have been pleased with this ruling.

Sam L (/Advisor to the Ambedkar Centre for Justice and Peace/)

On 8/24/2017 12:42 PM, Mishi Choudhary wrote:
> In a momentous judgment delivered in the case of K. S Puttaswamy (Retd.)
> & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors. [Writ Petition (Civil) No. 494 of 2012]
> today, the Supreme Court of India affirmed that citizens have a
> fundamental right to privacy. The nine-judge Constitution bench
> comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) J.S Khehar, and Justices D.Y.
> Chandrachud, J. Chelameshwar, S.A. Bobde, A. Nazeer, R.K. Agrawal, R.F.
> Nariman, A.M. Sapre, and S.K. Kaul, held in a unanimous decision that
> Right to Privacy is protected as an intrinsic part of Right to Life and
> Personal Liberty under Article 21 of the Constitution and other freedoms
> guaranteed under Part III of the Constitution.
>
>
> SFLC.in Board members were petitioners in this historic case.
>
> The nine-judge Bench was tasked with answering the specific question of
> whether the previous Supreme Court judgments in M.P. Sharma v. Satish
> Chandra [AIR 1954 SC 300] (an eight-judge Bench) and Kharak Singh v.
> State of Uttar Pradesh [AIR 1963 SC 1295] (a six-judge Bench) were
> correct in holding that the Constitution of India does not envisage a
> fundamental right to privacy.

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