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A nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday declared that the right to privacy is “intrinsic to life and liberty” and an inherent

Rajya Sabha MP Rajeev Chandrasekhar was one of the high-profile petitioners in the ‘Right to Privacy’ case. In an interview with BusinessLine, he shares his

  By decreeing that privacy is a fundamental right, the Supreme Court has opened the door to the possibility of other landmark decisions It isn’t

The landmark verdict of the Supreme Court declaring Right to Privacy as a fundamental right was today welcomed by jurists and senior advocates who termed

  As political parties tried to claim one-upmanship following the Supreme Court verdict on right to privacy, noted lawyer Prashant Bhushan said: “The judgment does

गोपनीयतेचा ‘आधार’ गोपनीयता हा जीवनाच्या हक्काचा स्वाभाविक भाग असल्याचा निर्वाळा देऊन सर्वोच्च न्यायालयाच्या नऊ न्यायाधीशांच्या खंडपीठाने खासगीपणाला मूलभूत हक्काचा दर्जा दिला आहे. राज्यघटनेतील अनुच्छेद २१

हा दिवस तमाम भारतीयांना अभिमान वाटावा असा. सर्वोच्च न्यायालयाच्या घटनापीठाने गुरुवारी एका ऐतिहासिक निर्णयात खासगीपणा हा मूलभूत अधिकार असल्याचा निवाडा दिला असून आधुनिक समाजनिर्मितीसाठी १३४

It’s been a historic week in the Supreme Court. On Tuesday a divided five judge Constitutional Bench of the Court declared triple talaq unconstitutional –

The 9-0 Supreme Court judgment pronouncing right to privacy as a fundamental right intrinsic to the right to life and personal liberty protected by Article

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