On 24 August 2017 a nine-judge Supreme Court bench in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) v. Union of India unanimously held that privacy is a fundamental right un…
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The Court accepted that political affiliation is private information, but voters' right to know about political funding prevailed and the scheme was struck down.
Citing Puttaswamy, the Court refused to accept a blanket national-security defence and appointed an independent technical committee.
Section 497 IPC was struck down. Several opinions relied on Puttaswamy's idea of sexual autonomy and decisional privacy.
No. The Aadhaar Act was upheld 4-1, but private use under Section 57 and mandatory bank and mobile linking were struck down.
Consensual same-sex relations between adults were decriminalised. The judges drew on Puttaswamy's view of sexual orientation as part of privacy.
A nine-judge bench unanimously held privacy to be a fundamental right under Article 21 and Part III. Restrictions must pass legality, legitimate aim and proportionality.
M.P. Sharma (1954, eight judges) and Kharak Singh (18 December 1962, six judges) had denied privacy constitutional status. Only a larger bench could overrule them.
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