{"id":36082,"date":"2018-11-01T13:27:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T07:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36082"},"modified":"2018-11-01T13:27:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T07:57:47","slug":"aadhaar-9-judge-bench-to-consider-whether-privacy-is-a-basic-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/aadhaar-9-judge-bench-to-consider-whether-privacy-is-a-basic-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Aadhaar: 9-judge Bench to consider whether privacy is a basic right:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/aadhaar-9-judge-bench-to-consider-whether-privacy-is-a-basic-right\/article19304759.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aadhaar: 9-judge Bench to consider whether privacy is a basic right<\/a>:\u00a0 (Nine- Judge Constitution Bench to hear Aadhaar petitions)<\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court decided to set up a nine-judge bench to decide whether right to privacy can be declared as a fundamental right under the Indian Constitution<\/span> <b>Introduction:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A nine- judge Bench of the Supreme Court will on Wednesday hear the question whether privacy is a fundamental human rights and is part of the basic structure of the Constitution<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The decision taken by a five-judge Constitution Bench led by Chief Justice Khehar is on the basis of a bunch of petitions contending that the Aadhaar scheme is a violation of the citizens\u2019 right to privacy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The petitions have argued that right to privacy is part of Article 21, the right to life, and interspersed in Article 19, though not explicitly slated in the Constitution.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Judgments :<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two judgments of the Supreme Court- the M.P . Sharma case verdict pronounced by an eight-judge Bench in 1954 shortly after the Constitution came into force in 1950 and the Kharak Singh case verdict of 1962 by a six-judge Bench had dominated the judicial dialogue on privacy since Independence<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both the judgments had concluded that privacy was not a fundamental or \u2018guaranteed\u2019 right<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Supreme Court has decided to determine once and for all whether privacy is negotiable or not. The nine-judge Bench seeks to bring a quietus to the divergent judicial pronouncements of the past.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe have to first determine whether right to privacy is a fundamental right or not before going into the issue on the constitutionality of the Aadhaar scheme, \u201cChief Justice Khehar said.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aadhaar: 9-judge Bench to consider whether privacy is a basic right:\u00a0 (Nine- Judge Constitution Bench to hear Aadhaar petitions) Context: The Supreme Court decided to set up a nine-judge bench to decide whether right to privacy can be declared as a fundamental right under the Indian Constitution Introduction: A nine- judge Bench of the Supreme&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/aadhaar-9-judge-bench-to-consider-whether-privacy-is-a-basic-right\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aadhaar: 9-judge Bench to consider whether privacy is a basic right:<\/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-36082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704894507},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36082","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=36082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}