"You
say, it is a common law. Then to say it does not figure in our
Constitution is logically not acceptable," Justice Jasti Chelameswar
said in his preliminary remarks.
NEW DELHI: Hearing petition against Aadhaar
schemes, a nine-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court will
examine on Wednesday whether an Indian citizen has a fundamental right
to privacy.
Defending government's Aadhaar schemes, former
Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi had said that privacy is not a
fundamental right and the new Attorney General KK Venugopal is likely to persist with the same argument.
However, Aadhaar opponents contest this claim. They argue that the scheme was violative of the right to privacy.
A five-judge bench led by Chief Justice of India
JS Khehar had referred the issue to nine judges, while expressing
scepticism over the government view that privacy was not a fundamental
right.
"You say, it is a common law. Then to say it
does not figure in our Constitution is logically not acceptable,"
Justice Jasti Chelameswar said in his preliminary remarks.
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