Summary:
Senior advocate Kapil Sibal, representing the four States, initiated his arguments before a nine-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice J.S. more-inThe Trinamool Congress-ruled West Bengal and the Congress-led Puducherry, Karnataka and Punjab on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court in support of declaring right to privacy a fundamental right. The petitioners had claimed that collection and sharing of biometric information, as required under the Aadhaar scheme, was a breach of the “fundamental” right to privacy. The apex court had on July 18 set up the Constitution bench after the matter was referred to a larger Bench by a five-judge Bench. But it is a fundamental right..