by sflc_admin | August 4, 2017 Kochi, 4th August 2017: Prasanth Sugathan, Legal Director at SFLC.in filed a Writ petition (W.P.(C) 26033/2017) before the Hon’ble High Court of Kerala , challenging the mandatory requirement as per Section 139AA of the amended Income Tax Act, 1961 to quote Aadhaar num...
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Yesterday, a nine-judge bench continued to hear arguments on whether a fundamental right to privacy exists. Our posts discussing yesterday’s hearings can be found here . Today, the hearing concluded with arguments advanced on behalf of the states of Rajasthan and Haryana along with the Centre for Ci...
Yesterday, a nine-judge bench continued to hear arguments on whether a fundamental right to privacy exists. Our posts discussing yesterday’s hearings can be found here . Today, the hearing concluded with arguments advanced on behalf of the states of Rajasthan and Haryana along with the Centre for Ci...
by sflc_admin | August 2, 2017 On day 6 of the hearing to decide the fate of right to privacy as a fundamental right in India, Supreme Court’s nine-judge bench in the matter of K.S Puttaswamy v. Union of India heard concluding arguments from the State (before lunch) and the Petitioners (post lunch)....
Last week, a nine-judge bench continued to hear arguments on whether a fundamental right to privacy exists. Our posts discussing last week’s hearings can be found here and here . Today, arguments were advanced on behalf of the states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and also the UIDAI. Mr. Su...
by sflc_admin | August 1, 2017 A historic nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India has been hearing arguments for and against the r ight to p rivacy in the matter of K.S Puttaswamy v. Union of India for four days ( day 1 , day 2 , day 3 , day 4 ). On the first two days of the hear...
Yesterday, a nine-judge bench continued to hear arguments on whether a fundamental right to privacy exists. Our posts discussing yesterday’s hearings can be found here and here . Today, arguments were advanced on behalf of respondents, which has been covered in two posts. The first post discusses ar...
by sflc_admin | July 27, 2017 Arguments before the nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on right to privacy (in the matter of K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India ) ran into its fourth day today. Read our previous updates from this hearing here: day 1 , day 2 , day 3 . Attorney General Mr...
Yesterday, a nine-judge bench continued to hear arguments on whether a fundamental right to privacy exists. Our posts discussing yesterday’s hearings can be found here and here . Today, arguments were advanced on behalf of respondents. This post covers arguments made by the Attorney General. The Att...
On the 19th of July, 2017, a nine-judge bench was constituted to determine whether there was a fundamental right to privacy. Hearings continued on the 20th and the 26th of July. Our post discussing the hearing on the 20th of July can be found here . Today, arguments were advanced on behalf of the pe...
by sflc_admin | July 26, 2017 Today was the third day of arguments before a nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in the matter of J* ustice K.S. Puttaswamy and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors. * [W.P.(C). No. 494/2012], regarding the existence of a fundamental right to privacy in India....
On the 19th of July, 2017, a nine-judge bench was constituted to determine whether there was a fundamental right to privacy. Hearings continued on the 20th and the 26th of July. Our post discussing the hearing on the 20th of July can be found here . Today, arguments were advanced on behalf of the pe...
Yesterday, a 9 judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court of India was set up to hear arguments on whether there is a fundamental right to privacy under the Indian Constitution, following from an order of a 5 judge bench on the day before. Arguments were advanced on behalf of some of the petition...
by sflc_admin | July 20, 2017 Today, a nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court continued hearing arguments on the existence of a fundamental right to privacy, in connection with the matter of Justice K.S. Puttaswamy and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors. [W.P.(C). No. 494/2012] that challeng...
Yesterday, a 9 judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court of India was set up to hear arguments on whether there is a fundamental right to privacy under the Indian Constitution, following from an order of a 5 judge bench on the day before. Arguments were advanced on behalf of some of the petition...
By Kritika Bhardwaj Following from the five-judge bench’s decision yesterday , a nine-judge bench was constituted today to determine the existence of a fundamental right to privacy. Arguments were advanced on behalf of some of the petitioners today. A background to this hearing, and the larger Aadha...
by sflc_admin | July 19, 2017 A nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court (SC), comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) J.S. Khehar and Justices D.Y. Chandrachud, J. Chelameshwar, S.A. Bobde, A. Nazeer, R.K. Agrawal, R.F. Nariman, A.M. Sapre, and S.K. Kaul, heard arguments today on whether ...
This week a 9 judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court of India is hearing arguments on whether there is a fundamental right to privacy under the Indian Constitution. In 2012, a petition was filed by Justice K. S. Puttaswamy (Retd) addressing the lack of procedural safeguards, coercion for enro...
by sflc_admin | July 18, 2017 Today, a five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court (SC) heard the batch of 22 petitions led by Justice K.S. Puttaswamy & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors. [W.P.(C). No. 494/2012], which challenge various aspects of the Aadhaar scheme. This Bench was forme...
In October 2015, a 3 judge bench of the Supreme Court of India referred challenges to the Aadhaar program to a constitution bench. The reference was mainly to determine the existence of a right to privacy as a fundamental right, after the Government of India argued that there is no such fundamental ...