The Value of Privacy- Here is what Supreme Court said in K.S. Puttaswamy Case
Privacy postulates the reservation of a private space for the individual, described as the right to be let alone. The concept is founded on the autonomy of the individual. The…
Model Code of Conduct (MCC): The Elections Code.
The ECI published the MCC as a series of rules to regulate political parties and candidates before elections. The MCC is operational from the day the election schedule is released…
Constituent Assembly and Right of Privacy
On 17 March 1947, K M Munshi submitted Draft articles on the fundamental rights and duties of citizens to the Sub-committee on fundamental rights. Among the rights of freedom proposed…
Jurisprudence on dignity- In Brief
Over the last four decades, our constitutional jurisprudence has recognised the inseparable relationship between protection of life and liberty with dignity. Dignity as a constitutional value finds expression in the…
Does Search and Seizure by Police Violate the Right against Self-Incrimination?
The question came before the court in 1954 when several petitions were filed under article 32 before the court contending that search and seizure violate his fundamental right against self-incrimination…
Right against Self-Incrimination- The Origin of the Right
In English law, this principle of protection against self-incrimination had a historical origin. It resulted from a feeling of revulsion against the inquisitorial methods adopted and the barbarous sentences imposed,…
Privacy as a Right of Citizens- Jurisprudential Aspects
The Greek philosopher Aristotle spoke of a division between the public sphere of political affairs (which he termed the polis) and the personal sphere of human life (termed oikos). This…
Privacy as a Natural and Inalienable Right
Privacy is a concomitant of the right of the individual to exercise control over his or her personality. It finds an origin in the notion that there are certain rights…
The Essence of Rule of Law and its Application in Indian Constitution
We are in the age of constitutional democracy, that too substantive and liberal democracy. Such a democracy is not based solely on the rule of people through their representatives which…
How ‘ADHAAR’ Came into Existence?- A Story
On March 03, 2006, approval was given by the Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India for the project titled ‘Unique Identification for BPL…