ORDER :

Permission to file Review Petition(s) is granted.

Delay condoned.

Prayer for open Court/personal hearing of Review Petition(s) is rejected.

The present review petitions have been filed against the final judgment and order dated 26.09.2018. W e have perused the review petitions as w ell as the grounds in support thereof. In our opinion, no case for review of judgment and order dated 26.09.2018 is made out. We hasten to add that change in the law or subsequent decision/judgment of a coordinate or larger Bench by itself cannot be regarded as a ground for review. The review petitions are accordingly dismissed.

Consequently, prayer for urging additional grounds in Review Petition (Civil) No. 22/2019 stands rejected.

JUDGMENT :

Dr Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, J.

1. I regret my inability to agree with the decision of the majority in dismissing the present batch of review petitions.

2. This batch of petitions seeks a review of the decision of a Constitution Bench of this Court in Puttaswamy (Aadhaar-5J.) v Union of India, (2019) 1 SCC 1 [“ Puttaswamy (Aadhar-5J.” ]. Among the issues which arose for decision, the Court had to answer two critical questions: (i) whether the decision of the Speake