New Delhi: Right to privacy, is the fundamental right or not? The bench of the nine judges of the Supreme Court will decide on this today. The court has to decide whether any individual's status or status is reserved for every citizen from the constitution. At the same time, the court will also decide the scope of the right to privacy.
What will happen if privacy gets the status of fundamental rights?
The biggest impact will be that in the future, any rule-law of the government can be challenged on the basis that it violates the right to privacy. However, there is a limit to the fundamental rights. In the Constitution, he is referring to the omission. Courts also have to decide the boundaries of privacy.
It can not be that privatization can be stopped by stating that every work of the government has been postponed. That is, no one wants to say yesterday that if he does not give his photo or other personal information to open the bank account then it will not be possible.
Why is it challenged?
Many petitions challenging the validity of the Unique Identification Number or Aadhaar card scheme are pending in the Supreme Court. The most important argument in these petitions is the violation of the right to privacy from the base. The petitioners have called the biometric information for the basis of infringement of privacy. While the government argued that the right to privacy is not a fundamental right in itself. If it is considered to be the fundamental right, then it will be difficult to run the system. Anyone referring to privacy will refuse to give finger prints, photos or any information for important government work.
In such a case, the Supreme Court decided that first of all it should be decided whether the right to privacy is the fundamental right or not. After this, the validity of the Aadhaar scheme will be heard.
Petitioner's plea:
On behalf of the petitioners, in the cases of Govind vs. Madhya Pradesh, Rajgopal vs. Tamilnadu, the Supreme Court has referred only to the decisions of the small benches. In these, privacy is considered to be the fundamental right.
He also referred to the Maneka Gandhi versus Union of India verdict which came in 1978. In this, the Bench of 7 judges had a new interpretation of Article 21 that means the right to life. The court had told him the right to live with respect. Senior lawyers argued that in this regard, the right to privacy will be considered as under Article 21.
It was also said that someone's eyes and finger prints are his personal property. It can not be compelled to give information to them. The government also has no right to take this information. Many non-BJP ruled states, including Punjab, Karnataka, West Bengal and Kerala, also have arguments in favor of the right to privacy.
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