What is right to privacy?

Update: 2017-08-28 11:54 GMT

Right to Privacy is an integral part of Right to Liberty. Right to life and right to

liberty are also inherent rights of Man. They are not given by any statute

including the constitution. Therefore, they cannot be taken away or even

suspended. They can only be restricted or regulated that too in the compelling

interest of the state and the society. Even the manner of regulating and

implementing the regulation state had to be just fair and reasonable. The

restriction cannot go beyond the need of the society.

There is a difference between fundamental rights mentioned in the constitution

and inherent rights e.g. the first instance the fundamental right mentioned in the

constitution are only some aspects of the right to life and liberty. Therefore,

those fundamental rights which are only some aspects of the rights of life and

liberty cannot also be suspended or taken away even during emergency; they

can only be restricted or regulated. But today our constitution stays that these

fundamental rights mentioned in the constitution except the rights mentioned in

the article 20 and 21 can be suspended.

Now in view of recognition by the Supreme Court that the privacy is an inherent

right of the man, even the other fundamental rights e.g. those mentioned in

article 19(1) (freedom of speech and expression, right to assemble peacefully,

right to carry on any business, occupation and profession, right to organize any

association, etc.) they cannot be suspended.

They can only be regulated or restricted as an inherent right to liberty, because

they are only aspect of inherent right to liberty. Therefore even provision made

in article 359 excepting in only the right mentioned in article 20 and 21 can be

challenged. All the fundamental rights which are the aspects of inherent right to

life and liberty.

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