Day: August 25, 2017

Arvind Datar is a senior advocate in the Supreme Court of India and represented one of the petitioners in the landmark Justice KS Puttaswamy and Others

Written by Apar Gupta The right to privacy was a constitutionally accepted and applied right recognised by an interpretative device of the Supreme Court since 1975.

The judgment also puts an end to some pernicious myths about the right to privacy. Illustration: C R Sasikumar The right to privacy is not

The observations on privacy did not really amount to a categorical ruling that there was no right to privacy. Thursday morning, a bench of nine

The Supreme Court’s declaration that citizens have a ‘right to be left alone’ is a huge milestone in the history of the Indian Republic and

August 24, 2017 is a red-letter day in the history of India. In a landmark judgment, the Supreme Court of India has unanimously declared the

In a verdict that will surely count as one of the most important for human rights in recent times, the Supreme Court of India has

In a rare unanimous verdict pronounced by nine judges, the Supreme Court has ruled that privacy is a fundamental right that requires constitutional protection. It