Privacy in the Indian Constitution

<p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Is the word ‘privacy’ in our Constitution? It isn't! Then how did we go from a point where it is not in our constitution to the Puttaswamy judgment (2017) when the Supreme Court unanimously recognised a fundamental right to privacy of every individual guaranteed by the Constitution, within Article 21 in particular and Part III on the whole. We are tracking Indian privacy jurisprudence in this episode of <em>The Longest Constitution</em> as well as looking at how the Supreme Court took on traders and shopkeepers in the MCD sealing case. Plus, a little bit about whether the right to vote is part of our fundamental rights or not. </p><p><strong>On privacy: </strong></p><ol><li data-list-indent="1" data-list-type="bulleted"><p><a href="https://www.scobserver.in/journal/right-to-privacy-court-in-review/#:~:text=Kharak%20Singh%20v%20State%20of%20Uttar%20Pradesh&amp;text=Kharak%20Singh%20then%20challenged%20the,of%20life%20and%20personal%20liberty" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.scobserver.in/journal/right-to-privacy-court-in-review/#:~:text=Kharak%20Singh%20v%20State%20of%20Uttar%20Pradesh&amp;text=Kharak%20Singh%20then%20challenged%20the,of%20life%20and%20personal%20liberty</a></p></li><li data-list-indent="1" data-list-type="bulleted"><p><a href="https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1306519/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1306519/</a></p></li></ol><p><strong>On the MCD sealing case: </strong></p><ol><li data-list-indent="1" data-list-type="bulleted"><p>Bhuwania, Anuj, <em>Courting the People: Public Interest Litigation in Post-Emergency India</em>, Cambridge University Press: New Delhi, Chapter 2. </p></li></ol><p><strong>On the voting case: </strong></p><ol><li data-list-indent="1" data-list-type="bulleted"><p>Sondhi, Aditya, ‘Elections’, in Choudhry, Sujit (et al), <u><a href="https://oxcon.ouplaw.com/view/10.1093/law/9780198704898.001.0001/law-9780198704898" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Oxford Handbook of the Indian