Attorney general Mukul Rohatgi told the bench that law on right to privacy was vague and pleaded with the court that a larger bench be constituted to pass an authoritative verdict on the issue.
The Union government on 22 July clearly told the Supreme Court that citizens do not have the fundamental right to privacy under the Indian Constitution.
A bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar was told the Constitution doesn’t confer right to privacy to citizens, said Attorney general Mukul Rohatgi. He was referring to a SC verdict delivered in 1950s in which a eight-judge bench ruled right to privacy was not a fundamental right.
He told the bench that law on right to privacy was vague and pleaded with the court that a larger bench be constituted to pass an authoritative verdict on the issue.
The court was hearing a clutch of petitions challenging the validity of Aadhaar scheme on the ground that the programme violates citizens right to privacy.
The AG said that there does not arise any question of violation of right when it is not there.