{"id":151544,"date":"2017-08-24T10:53:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T05:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=151544"},"modified":"2017-08-24T11:10:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T05:40:25","slug":"breaking-9-judge-constitution-bench-declares-privacy-as-a-fundamental-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2017\/08\/24\/breaking-9-judge-constitution-bench-declares-privacy-as-a-fundamental-right\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING| 9-judge Constitution bench unanimously declares Privacy as a Fundamental Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Supreme Court<\/strong>: In the landmark verdict, the 9-judge Constitution bench has declared that the Right to Privacy is a part of Article 21 &amp; Part III of the Constitution. CJI Khehar, who had not authored the unanimous judgment but read it before a jampacked courtroom, said that MP Sharma case, Kharak Singh Case &amp; any other judgments that say that privacy is not a fundamental right are overruled.<\/p>\n<p>The bench of\u00a0J.S. Khehar, CJ and J. Chelameswar, S.A. Bobde, R.K. Agrawal, R.F. Nariman, A.M. Sapre, Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud, S.K. Kaul and S.A. Nazeer, JJ is hearing the issue of \u2018right to privacy\u2019 being a part of fundamental rights or not after the<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.scconline.com\/post\/2017\/07\/18\/breaking-aadhaar-9-judge-bench-to-hear-the-right-to-privacy-issue-tomorrow\/\">\u00a05-judge bench<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0J.S. Khehar, CJ and J Chelameswar, SA Bobde, DY Chandrachud &amp; S.A. Nazeer, JJ said that in the light of the rulings by the 8-judge and 6-judge benches in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/LoginForDocumentLink\/Jsqw8f0t\">M.P. Sharma v. 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