{"id":49542,"date":"2017-08-24T06:21:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T00:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=49542"},"modified":"2017-08-24T06:21:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T00:51:39","slug":"sc-declares-right-privacy-fundamental-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-declares-right-privacy-fundamental-right","title":{"rendered":"SC declares right to privacy as Fundamental right"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47555\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47555\" style=\"width: 299px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/03\/SC-upholds-life-term.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"47555\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/sc-upholds-life-term-3-killing-gujarat-shiv-sena-leader\/sc-upholds-life-term\" 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Court today unanimously declared that right to privacy was a Fundamental right under the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>A nine-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice J S Khehar ruled that &#8220;right to privacy is an intrinsic part of Right to Life and Personal Liberty under Article 21 and entire Part III of the Constitution&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling on the highly contentious issue was to deal with a batch of petitions challenging the Centre&#8217;s move to make Aadhaar mandatory for availing the benefits of various social welfare schemes.<\/p>\n<p>While the Centre had argued that right to privacy is not a Fundamental right, the petitioners had contended that when a citizen gives his biometrics and personal details to the government and when in turn it is used by commercial organisations, it is a breach of privacy.<\/p>\n<p>The judgement was limited to the issue of right to privacy and the question whether Aadhaar violates right to privacy will be dealt with the five-judge bench which has been hearing the petitions since 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s judgement, other members of the bench comprising Justices J Chelameswar, S A Bobde, R K Agrawal, R F Nariman, A M Sapre, D Y Chandrachud, S K Kaul and S Abdul Nazeer also shared the same view.<\/p>\n<p>The nine judges unanimously overruled the two earlier judgements of the apex court that right to privacy is not protected under the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The bench overruled the M P Sharma verdict of 1950 and that of Kharak Singh of 1960.<\/p>\n<p>The judgement in the Kharak Singh case was pronounced by eight judges and in M P Sharma it was delivered by six judges.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Khehar, who read the operative portion of the judgement, said the subsequent verdicts pronounced after M P Sharma and Kharak Singh have laid down the correct position of the law.<\/p>\n<p>Before pronouncing the judgement, the CJI said that among the nine judges some of them have authored different orders.<\/p>\n<p>The verdict was reserved after hearing marathon arguments for six days over a period of three weeks, during which submissions were advanced in favour and against the inclusion of the right to privacy as a fundamental right.<\/p>\n<p>The high-voltage hearing saw a battery of senior lawyers, including Attorney General K K Venugopal, Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, Arvind Datar, Kapil Sibal, Gopal Subaramaniam, Shyam Divan, Anand Grover, C A Sundaram and Rakesh Dwivedi, advancing arguments either in favour or against the inclusion of right to privacy as a fundamental right.<\/p>\n<p>Petitioners include former Karnataka High Court judge Justice K S Puttaswamy, first Chairperson of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights and Magsaysay award recipient Shanta Sinha, feminist researcher Kalyani Sen Menon and others who have challenged the validity of the Aadhaar scheme on grounds of it being violative of the right to privacy.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, on July 7, a three-judge bench had 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