Privacy and the Indian Supreme Court: A Compendium of Case Briefs

This book is the second edition of ‘Privacy and the Indian Supreme Court’, which tracks and summarises the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence on privacy over more than 70 years. 

The Supreme Court has a long history of case law that has developed the right to privacy in India, culminating in the landmark Puttaswamy vs Union of India case in 2017. Puttaswamy unequivocally reaffirmed the right to privacy as a fundamental right in the Indian Constitution, and conceptualised privacy as essential to exercising all other fundamental rights and freedoms. The book details how the Supreme Court has relied on Puttaswamy in subsequent decisions in a range of areas, from protecting the right to engage in homosexual relations, to decriminalising adultery, to examining the ambit of the Right to Information Act, 2005, among others. The case briefs are categorised into eight distinct categories for easy reference, and are summarised to provide quick reference to the reader.

This book is part of CCG-NLUD’s larger efforts to track privacy jurisprudence across the globe in order to help researchers and other interested stakeholders understand how the right to privacy is developing and is being applied in various jurisdictions. Our database, the Privacy Law Library, has more than 250 case briefs from over 20 jurisdictions, and is one of the largest and most diverse resources in the world on privacy jurisprudence.