Rejecting the governments contention
The old order changeth yielding place to new.It refers to the Delhi High Court judgement that decriminalises the section and the Supreme Court ruling overturning it and said the apex court had found fault with the basis of the High Court verdict. Sapre, D.The right to privacy and the protection of sexual orientation lie at the core of the fundamental rights guaranteed by Articles 14, 15 and 21 of the Constitution. Agrawal, Rohinton F.The government does not give the right to release data to anyone, except in case of compelling public interest, Prasad said.In a unanimous verdict, a nine-judge Constitution bench observed that privacy was protected as an intrinsic part of life and personal liberty and freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution.Against the backdrop of Aadhaar controversy, the court expressed the hope that the central government would take necessary steps putting in place a robust regime for data protection. Puttaswamy and others against the validity of the Aadhaar scheme on the ground that it violated the right to privacy. They said the court had endorsed the governments view that citizens data could be collected to ensure that benefits of social welfare schemes reach the targeted poor.M.Life and personal liberty are inalienable to human existence.But the data has to be utilised for legitimate purposes and not unauthorisedly for extraneous purposes.
Chandrachud, S. Srikrishna to review data protection norms, the apex court said since the government had initiated the process of reviewing the area of data protection, it would be best to leave the matter for experts.In a democratic Constitution founded on the rule of law, rights (of minorities) are as sacred as those conferred on other citizens to protect their freedoms and liberties. Congress President Sonia Gandhi slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modis government, saying the court had struck a blow on the unbridled encroachment and surveillance by the State and its agencies in the life of common man.Gandhi said the verdict heralds a new era for individual rights, personal liberty and human dignity. It would be preposterous to suggest that a democratic Constitution without a Bill of Rights would leave individuals governed by the state without either the existence of the right to live or the means of enforcement of the right.New Delhi, Aug 24 (IANS) Coming out strongly in support of individual freedom, the Supreme Court on Thursday declared right to privacy as a fundamental right guaranteed by Constitution, a ruling that could have a bearing on the case related to Aadhaar that has been made mandatory in various services.In his ruling, Justice Kaul said: Let the right of privacy, an inherent right, be unequivocally a fundamental right embedded in part III of the Constitution but subject to the restrictions specified, relatable to that part.
Rejecting the governments contention that privacy was not a fundamental right, the bench headed by Chief Justice J. This is the call of today.But Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley termed the ruling as positive, saying the government shared the courts view that privacy was a fundamental right.The Congress saw in the verdict a setback for the Radial Journal Bearings government which had argued there was no fundamental right to privacy.There were six judgements written by the nine judges but all of them held that right to privacy was a fundamental right.Recalling the ADM Jabalpur case in which the apex court declared that right to liberty could be suspended during Emergency, the judges said the ruling by four judges in that case are seriously flawed
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