Here is Question No. 9 a part of our series on UPSC Prelims 2021.
Q9. ‘Right to Privacy’ is protected under which Article of the Constitution of India?
a) Article 15
b) Article 19
c) Article 21
d) Article 29
Answer: (c)
- According to Article 21, the Right to privacy is protected as an intrinsic part of the right to life and personal liberty and as a part of the freedoms guaranteed by Part III of the Constitution. The nine-judge Constitutional A bench of the Supreme Court in Justice K. S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) and Anr. vs Union Of India And Ors (2017) has ruled that individual privacy is intrinsic to life and liberty and an inherent part of the fundamental rights enshrined in Article 21 of the Constitution.
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