New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday held that the right to privacy is a fundamental right and is an integral part of the right to life and liberty
Following is the chronology of Supreme Court hearings in the right to privacy case:
July 7: Three-judge bench says issues arising out of Aadhaar should finally be decided by larger bench and CJI would take a call on need for setting up a constitution bench
July: Matter mentioned before CJI who sets up a five-judge constitution bench to hear the matter
Jul 18: Five-judge constitution bench decides to set up a nine-judge bench to decide whether the right to privacy can be declared a fundamental right under the Constitution
Nine-judge bench (Chief justice J.S. Khehar, justices J. Chelameswar, S.A. Bobde, R.K. Agrawal, Rohinton Fali Nariman, Abhay Manohar Sapre, D.Y. Chandrachud, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and S. Abdul Nazeer) constituted to hear the privacy matter.
July 19: SC says right to privacy can't be absolute, may be regulated
July 19: Center tells SC that right to privacy is not a fundamental right
July 26: Karnataka, West Bengal, Punjab and Puducherry, the four non-BJP ruled states move SC in favour of right to privacy
July 26: Cent re tells SC that privacy can be fundamental right with some riders.
July 27: Maharashtra government tells SC that privacy is not a 'standalone' right, but it is rather a concept
August 1: SC says there has to be 'overarching' guidelines to protect an individual's private information in public domain
August 2: SC says protection of the concept of privacy in the technological era was a 'losing battle', reserves verdict.
August 24: SC rules right to privacy as fundamental right under the Constitution
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