Privacy is not absolute, observes SC

Privacy is not absolute, observes SC
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The right to privacy is not absolute and cannot be catalogued as it includes everything, a nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court said today. 

New Delhi: The right to privacy is not absolute and cannot be catalogued as it includes everything, a nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court said today.

The top court is revisiting the question of privacy, 55 years after the Supreme Court decided that privacy is not a basic right for citizens.

The decision of the judges is pivotal to petitions that challenge making the Aadhaar scheme mandatory for millions of Indians.

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