{"id":31090,"date":"2018-10-27T12:06:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31090"},"modified":"2018-10-27T12:06:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:36:41","slug":"new-law-cannot-cure-past-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-law-cannot-cure-past-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018New law cannot cure past breach\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/new-law-cannot-cure-past-breach\/article22820348.ece\"><b>\u2018New law cannot cure past breach\u2019<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mere absence of a law can be cured by subsequently enacting one with a retroactive effect, but this new law cannot cure \u201cbreaches\u201d that occurred prior to it, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud observed orally during a Constitution Bench hearing in the Aadhaar challenge.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Introduction:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The judge, who is a part of the Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice Dipak Misra, was referring to the mass collection of personal data from citizens during the pre-Aadhaar Act years from 2009 to 2016.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Aadhaar law came into existence in 2016.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The judge was responding to submissions made by senior advocate Gopal Subramanium, for petitioners, that the subsequent enactment of Aadhaar Act in 2016 cannot cure the \u201ccomplete invasion of privacy\u201d which occurred in the pre-statute years of the Aadhaar scheme.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>\u2018Rights violated\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said that abrogation of fundamental rights which occurred during the collection of personal. information during the pre-Aadhaar Act years was a \u201cchoate act\u201d in itself<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He claimed that the Aadhaar Act itself was \u201cviolative of fundamental rights\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNo Act can retroactively protect fundamental right. There cannot be a retroactive assertion of substantial and procedural reasonableness&#8230; That is, the Act cannot ratify anything illegal,\u201d Mr. Subramanium submitted.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018New law cannot cure past breach\u2019 Context: Mere absence of a law can be cured by subsequently enacting one with a retroactive effect, but this new law cannot cure \u201cbreaches\u201d that occurred prior to it, Justice D.Y. Chandrachud observed orally during a Constitution Bench hearing in the Aadhaar challenge. Introduction: The judge, who is a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-law-cannot-cure-past-breach\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018New law cannot cure past breach\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704954097},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}