Supreme Court verdicts Right To Privacy a fundamental right

Supreme Court of India declares Right To Privacy as a fundamental right and intrinsic to right to life on 24th August 2017

Supreme Court 9 judges bench declares right to privacy to be fundamental right for Indian cityzen against a petition filed by Karnataka High Court ex-judge KS Puttuswami in 2012. Supreme court also clubbed more than 20 cases linked to Aadhar in this case.

9 Judges involved in hearing on the question to privacy are CJI JS Khehar, J Chelameshwar, SA Bobde, RK Agrawal, RF Nariman, AM Sapre, DY Chandrachud, SK Kaul, S Abdul Nazeer.

Petitioner questions government efforts collecting private data of cityzen in the court. Many petitions filed against government's most popular scheme Aadhar questioning it against right to privacy.

Supreme Court looked for right to privacy over right to live during the hearing. SC also went through verdicts given in 1954 and 1961 similar cases for right to privacy. In both previous judgements SC did not recognize right to privacy as right to equality or fundamental right.

Impact of Supreme Court judgement over right to privacy being a fundamental right

Supreme Court judgement is kind of blow to government schemes depends on Aadhar and other private data collections. Government of India put it's points in favor of it's schemes in support to right to live.

Now people can file petition against Aadhar schemes in the court in view of today's judgement declaring right to privacy as a fundamental right.

This is a landmark judgement in today's scenario where almost all personal data is kept in digital vaults.

This is interesting to watch how government will react on the judgement of the bench of 9 judges over right to privacy that make government job tough to run government schemes like before.