Right to privacy-India

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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.

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

In short this is the gift of the campaigns against aadhaar to the people
 of India.

That thought keeps me grinning. Efforts of many  like us from 2009 onwards
strated producing solid interim results.

Anivar Aravind
https://anivar.net

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 10:12 PM, Mishi Choudhary <mishi at softwarefreedom.org
> 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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