Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Supreme Court in Unanimous Verdict
Implicazioni per Aadhaar. <https://thewire.in/170303/supreme-court-aadhaar-right-to-privacy/> New Delhi: A nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court has ruled that Indians enjoy a fundamental right to privacy, that it is intrinsic to life and liberty and thus comes under Article 21 of the Indian constitution. On Thursday, the bench, led by Chief Justice J.S. Khehar, pronounced a unanimous judgement even if the judges had slightly different arguments as to how privacy is intrinsic to right to life and liberty. The bench comprised Chief Justice Khehar and Justices J. Chelameswar, S.A. Bobde, R.K. Agrawal, Rohinton Nariman, A.M. Sapre, D.Y. Chandrachud, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and S. Abdul Nazeer. In its 547-page judgment <https://www.scribd.com/document/357098939/SC-Right-to-Privacy-Judgment#from_...> that declares privacy to be a fundamental right, the Supreme Court has overruled verdicts given in the /M.P. Sharma/ case in 1958 and the /Kharak Singh/ case in 1961, both of which said that the right to privacy is not protected under the Indian constitution. The judgment includes within it six separate judgments from different judges, though the conclusion is unanimous. /The Wire/ has broken the main judgment into its constituent parts to make it easier to see what the different judges said. (see below) The judgment also included a two-page final order, which states that /MP Sharma/ and /Kharak Singh/ are overruled, and the right to privacy is fundamental. [...]
Interessante! Avevo parlato di privacy in India, con riguardo a net neutrality e database biometrici, in questo articoletto: https://www.academia.edu/34350609/The_Internet_of_Citizens._A_lawyer_s_view_... On 24 August 2017 at 11:31, Alberto Cammozzo <ac+nexa@zeromx.net> wrote:
Implicazioni per Aadhaar.
<https://thewire.in/170303/supreme-court-aadhaar-right-to-privacy/>
New Delhi: A nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court has ruled that Indians enjoy a fundamental right to privacy, that it is intrinsic to life and liberty and thus comes under Article 21 of the Indian constitution.
On Thursday, the bench, led by Chief Justice J.S. Khehar, pronounced a unanimous judgement even if the judges had slightly different arguments as to how privacy is intrinsic to right to life and liberty.
The bench comprised Chief Justice Khehar and Justices J. Chelameswar, S.A. Bobde, R.K. Agrawal, Rohinton Nariman, A.M. Sapre, D.Y. Chandrachud, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and S. Abdul Nazeer.
In its 547-page judgment <https://www.scribd.com/document/357098939/SC-Right- to-Privacy-Judgment#from_embed> that declares privacy to be a fundamental right, the Supreme Court has overruled verdicts given in the /M.P. Sharma/ case in 1958 and the /Kharak Singh/ case in 1961, both of which said that the right to privacy is not protected under the Indian constitution.
The judgment includes within it six separate judgments from different judges, though the conclusion is unanimous. /The Wire/ has broken the main judgment into its constituent parts to make it easier to see what the different judges said. (see below)
The judgment also included a two-page final order, which states that /MP Sharma/ and /Kharak Singh/ are overruled, and the right to privacy is fundamental.
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