K. S. Puttaswamy (Retd. ) vs Union of India

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2015 Supreme(SC) 1147

J.CHELAMESWAR, S.A.BOBDE, C.NAGAPPAN
K. S. Puttaswamy (Retd. ) – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent

Advocate Appeared:
For the Petitioner in W.P. (C) No. 829 of 2013:Shyam Divan, Senior Advocate, Aayush Agarwal, Prasanna S., Niharika, Pratap Venugopal, Gaurav Nair, Advocates for M/s. K.J. John and Co.
For the Petitioner in W.P. (C) No. 37 of 2015:Gopal Subramanium, Senior Advocate, Aishwarya Bhati, Talha Abdul Rahman, Prateek Chaddha, Ankur Kashyap, Kushagra Pandey, Anusha Ramesh, Rudra Pratap, Saransh Kumar, Anirban Sen, Neha Meena, Madhurima Ghosh and T. Gopal, Advocates.
For the Petitioner in WP (C) No. 494 of 2012:Soli Sorabjee, Sr. Advocate, Anil B. Diwan, Sr. Advocate, Ankit Goel, Sanjay Kumar Yadav and Anish Kumar Gupta, Advcates.
For the Petitioners in TP (C) No. 151 of 2015:Geetha Kovilan and P.R. Kovilan, Advocates.
For the Petitioners in TP (C) No. 921 of 2015:Pinky Anand, ASG, A.K. Sanghi, Sr. Advocate, S.S. Rawat and D.S. Mahra, Advocates.
For the Petitioners in TP (C) No. 152 of 2013:Meenakshi Arora, Sr. Advocate, Rahul Narayan, Mohit Singh, Vijay Kumar, Amit Meharia, Dhritiman Das for Meharia and Company Advocates.
For the Petitioner in W.P. (C) No. 932 of 2013:Dr. Abhishek Atrey, Advocate.
For the Petitioner in CC (C) No. 470 of 2015:Sella Kumar and Sumit Rajora, Advocates.
For the Respondents (UOI):Mukul Rohatgi, AG, Pinky Anand, ASG, R. Balasubramanian, Ajay Sharma, S.S. Rawat, Devanshi Singh, Binu Tamta, Zoheb Hossain, Kritika Sachdeva, Ranjeeta Rohatgi, Vakul Sharma, Meenakshi Grover, Karan Seth and D.S. Mahra, Advocates.
For the Respondent in IA No. 11 of 2014:K.K. Venugopal, Sr. Advocate, Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Prerna Priyadarshini, Ankur Talwar, Nidhi and Savita Singh, Advocates.
For the State of Telangana :S. Udaya Kumar Sagar and Krishna Kumar Singh, Advocates.
For the Respondent (RBI):Jayant Bhushan, Sr. Advocate, Kuldeep S. Parihar and H.S. Parihar, Advocates.
For the NCT of Delhi :J.M. Kalia, Advocate.
For the State of Goa :Ninad Laud, Karan Mathur and Jayant Mohan, Advocates.
For the A&N Administration :K.V. Jagdeshwaran and G. Indira, Advocates.
For the State of Assam : M/s. Corporate Law Group.
For the State of HP :J.S. Attrri, Sr. Advocate, Suryanarayana Singh, Sr. AAG, Varinder Kumar Sharma and Pragati Neekhra, Advocates.
State of Maharashtra :Nachiketa Joshi, Nishant Katneshwarkar and E.C. Agrawala, Advocates.
For the State of Bihar :Abhinav Mukerji and Bihu Sharma, Advocates.
For the State of AP :Guntur Prabhakar and Prerna Singh, Advocates.
For the State Uttarakhand :Jatinder K. Bhatia, Advocate.
For the State TN :B. Balaji, R. Rakesh Sharma and Mishra Saurabh, Advocates.
For the State of Manipur :Sapam Biswajit Meitei, Z.H. Isaac Haiding, S. Vijayanand Sharma and Ashok Kumar Singh, Advocates.
For the Mizoram :K.N. Madhusoodhanan and T.G.N. Nair, Advocates.
For the Sikkim : A. Mariarputham, AG, Aruna Mathur, Yusuf Khan, K. Vijay Kumar and Arputham Aruna and Co.
For the State of Nagaland :K. Enatoli Sema, Edward Belho and Amit Kumar Singh, Advocates.
For the ECI :Ashok Desai, Sr. Advocate, S.K. Mandiratta, Monisha Nanda, Mohit D. Ram, Sajjan Poovayya, Sr. Advocate, Praveen Sehrawat, Priyadarshi Banerjee and Sarans Jain, Advocates.
For the Assam :Gopal Singh, Rituraj Biswas and Rashmi Srivastava, Advocates.
For the State of Arunachal Pradesh :Anil Shrivastav and Rituraj Biswas, Advocates.
For the UT Chandigarh :Vimla Sinha and Gopal Singh, Advocate.
State of Kerala :Jogy Scaria and Reegan S. Bel, Advocates.
State of Punjab :Sanchar Anand, AAG, Apoorv Singhal and Jagjit Singh Chhabra, Advocates.
For the State of Jharkhand :Ajit Kumar Sinha, Sr. Advocate, Tapesh Kumar Singh and Mohd. Waquas, Advocates.
For the Chhatisgarh :C.D. Singh and Sylona Mohapatra, Advocates.
For the Government Puducherry :V.G. Pragasam and Prabu Ramasubramanian, Advocates.
For the Respondent in IA No. 5 of 2004 in WP (C) No. 833 of 2013:Praveen Sehrawat, Priyadarshi Banerjee, Nikhil Nayyar and Anitha Shenoy, Advocates.
For the State of WB :Soumitra G. Choudhuri and Anip Sachthey, Advocates.
For the Rajasthan :Shiv Mangal, Sharma, AAG, Abhinandini Sharma, Nishit Agrawal, Anjali Chauhan, Shrey Kapoor, Saurabh Rajpal, Milind Kumar, Ruchi Kohli, Aniruddha P. Mayee and Garvesh Kabra, Advocates.
For the Gujarat :Hemantika Wahi, Jesal Wahi, Vinakshi Kadan, Saikrishna Rajagopal, Arjun Ranganathan, Julien George, C. K. Sucharita, Kamal Mohan Gupta, Dinkar Kalra, Amit Sharma and T.G. Narayan Nair, Advocates.

ORDER :

1. In this batch of matters, a scheme propounded by the Government of India popularly known as "Aadhaar Card Scheme" is under attack on various counts. For the purpose of this order, it is not necessary for us to go into the details of the nature of the scheme and the various counts on which the scheme is attacked. Suffice it to say that under the said scheme the Government of India is collecting and compiling both the demographic and biometric data of the residents of this country to be used for various purposes, the details of which are not relevant at present.

2. One of the grounds of attack on the scheme is that the very collection of such biometric data is violative of the "right to privacy". Some of the petitioners assert that the right to privacy is implied under Article 21 of the Constitution of India while other petitioners assert that such a right emanates not only from Article 21 but also from various other articles embodying the fundamental rights guaranteed under Part-III of the Constitution of India.

3. When the matter was taken up for hearing, Shri Mukul Rohatgi, learned Attorney General made a submission that in view of the judgments of this Court in M.P. Sharm

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2015 Supreme(SC) 1147

J.CHELAMESWAR, S.A.BOBDE, C.NAGAPPANK. S. Puttaswamy (Retd. ) – AppellantVersusUnion of India – Respondent

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J.CHELAMESWAR, S.A.BOBDE, C.NAGAPPAN
K. S. Puttaswamy (Retd. ) – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent