{"id":35441,"date":"2018-10-31T17:35:44","date_gmt":"2018-10-31T12:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35441"},"modified":"2018-10-31T17:35:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T12:05:44","slug":"privacy-is-a-fundamental-right-declares-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/privacy-is-a-fundamental-right-declares-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy is a fundamental right, declares SC:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/privacy-is-a-fundamental-right-declares-sc\/article19556611.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Privacy is a fundamental right, declares SC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Privacy is vital to life and liberty and an inherent part of the fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution was declared by a nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in a unanimous verdict.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The court\u2019s decision<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court held that privacy is a natural right present in human beings.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The state does not confer natural rights on citizens. Natural rights like privacy exist equally in all individuals, irrespective of class, strata, gender or orientation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPrivacy is the constitutional core of human dignity. Privacy ensures the fulfilment of dignity,\u201d Justice D.Y. Chandrachud wrote.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Arguments by Centre<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Centre had debated against the recognition of privacy as a fundamental right.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It had guaranteed the court that privacy would be protected through parliamentary statutes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Court\u2019s response<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the court countered that statutory laws \u201ccan be made and also unmade by a simple parliamentary majority.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe ruling party can, at will, do away with any or all of the protections contained in the statutes.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fundamental rights are rights citizens may enjoy despite the governments they elect,\u201d Justice Rohinton F. Nariman explained in his separate judgment.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court chided the Centre for describing right to privacy as an \u201celitist construct.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court maintained that privacy was the concern of a few, while schemes like Aadhaar, which require citizens to part with their biometric details to the state, reduce corruption and benefit millions of poor.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The refrain that the poor need no civil and political rights and are concerned only with economic well-being has been utilized through history to wreak the most egregious violations of human rights.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is privacy, as an intrinsic and core feature of life and personal liberty, which enables individuals to stand up against a programme of forced sterilization.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the right to question, scrutinize, dissent which enables an informed citizenry to scrutinize the actions of government.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Not an absolute right<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the court held that privacy is not an absolute right.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government can introduce a law which \u201cintrudes\u201d into privacy for public and legitimate state reasons.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy is a fundamental right, declares SC:\u00a0 Context Privacy is vital to life and liberty and an inherent part of the fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution was declared by a nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in a unanimous verdict. 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