Question

Right to Privacy is protected as an intrinsic part of Right to Life and Personal Liberty. 

Which of the following in the Constitution of India correctly and appropriately imply the above statement?

(a) Article 14 and the provisions under the 42nd Amendment to the Constitution

(b) Article 17 and the Directive Principles of State Policy in Part IV

(c) Article 21 and the freedoms guaranteed in Part. III

(d) Article 24 and the provisions under the 44th Amendment to the Constitution

Answer 1

(c) Article 21 and the freedoms guaranteed in Part. III

Right to Privacy is protected as an intrinsic part of Right to Life and Personal.

Liberty under Article Article 21 and the freedoms guaranteed in Part III of the Indian Constitution.

Right to Privacy has been declared as a Fundamental Right by the Supreme Court in the case of Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd) vs Union of India.

The Judgement overruled the verdicts given in M.P. Sharma case in 1958 and the Kharak Singh case in 1961, both of which said that the right to privacy is not protected under the Indian constitution.