“The right to privacy is inextricably bound
up with all exercises of human liberty – both as
it is specifically enumerated across Part III, and
as it is guaranteed in the residue under Article
- It is distributed across the various articles
in Part III and, mutatis mutandis, takes the form
of whichever of their enjoyment its violation
curtails.” 2
Right to privacy is no more a myth – the
Supreme Court quite recently conferred this
right upon the citizens of India and has deemed
it to be a Fundamental Right under Chapter
III of the Indian Constitution. Overruling the
verdicts given in M.P. Sharma3 and Kharak
Singh4, this 547 pages judgement divulges it
as a Fundamental Right 5under the purview of
Article 21 and Article 19 of the Constitution
respectively. The same has been illuminated with
respect to Article 12 of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights which declares:
“No person shall be subjected to arbitrary
interference with his privacy, family, home or
correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour
and reputation. Everyone has the right to
protection of the law against such interference.”6
, thereby concluding that:
