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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Privacy is a fundamental right under Article 21, rules Supreme Court -Krishnadas Rajagopal

Privacy is a fundamental right under Article 21, rules Supreme Court -Krishnadas Rajagopal

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published Published on Aug 24, 2017   modified Modified on Aug 24, 2017
-The Hindu

The right to privacy is intrinsic to life and liberty, thus coming under Article 21, and comes under the various fundamental freedoms in PART III of the Indian Constitution.

A nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on August 24, 2017 ruled that right to privacy is “intrinsic to life and liberty” and is inherently protected under the various fundamental freedoms enshrined under Part III of the Indian Constitution.

Reading out the common conclusion arrived at by the nine judges on the Bench, Chief Justice of India J.S. Khehar said the court has overruled its own eight-judge Bench and six-judge Bench judgments of M.P. Sharma and Kharak Singh cases delivered in 1950 and 1961, respectively, that privacy is not protected under the Constitution.

The Centre had argued that privacy is a common law right.

The nine-judge Bench was composed of Chief Justice J.S. Khehar and Justices J. Chelameswar, S.A. Bobde, R.K. Agrawal, Rohinton F. Nariman, Abhay Manohar Sapre, D.Y. Chandrachud and Sanjay Kishan Kaul.

The Bench was formed as two judgments of the Supreme Court — the 1950 M.P. Sharma case verdict pronounced by an eight-judge Bench shortly after the Indian Constitution came into force and 1965 Kharak Singh case verdict by a six-judge Bench — had dominated the judicial dialogue on privacy since Independence. Both judgments had concluded that privacy was not a fundamental or ‘guaranteed’ right. To overcome these two precedents, a numerically superior Bench of nine judges was required.

A five-judge Bench led by Chief Justice Khehar had referred the question whether privacy is a fundamental right or not to the nine-judge Bench.

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The Hindu, 24 August, 2017, http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/privacy-is-a-fundamental-right-under-article-21-rules-supreme-court/article19551224.ece


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