{"id":2402,"date":"2025-05-01T19:32:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2402"},"modified":"2025-05-01T19:32:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T14:02:34","slug":"q-under-which-of-the-following-articles-of-the-constitution-of-india-has-the-supreme-court-of-india-placed-the-right-to-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-under-which-of-the-following-articles-of-the-constitution-of-india-has-the-supreme-court-of-india-placed-the-right-to-privacy","title":{"rendered":"Q. Under which of the following Articles of the Constitution of India, has the Supreme Court of India placed the Right to Privacy?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list mcq\">\n<li>Article 15<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Article 16<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Article 19<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Article 21<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer:&nbsp;(d) Article 21<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"right-to-privacy\">Right to Privacy<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Generally understood that privacy is synonymous with the right to be let alone.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Supreme Court described privacy and its importance in the landmark decision of\u00a0<strong>K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India<\/strong>\u00a0in 2017 that \u2013<strong>\u00a0Right to Privacy is a fundamental<\/strong>\u00a0and inalienable right and attaches to the person covering all information about that person and the choices that he\/ she makes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The\u00a0<strong>right to privacy is protected as an intrinsic part of the right to life and personal liberty under\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/inshorts\/article-21-of-indian-constitution-upsc\/\">Article 21<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and as a part of the freedoms guaranteed by Part III of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/upsc-notes\/constitution-of-india\/\">Constitution<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Restrictions (as stated in the Judgement):<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The right may be restricted only by state action that passes each of the three tests:\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>First, such state action must have a\u00a0<strong>legislative mandate,<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Second, it must be pursuing a\u00a0<strong>legitimate state purpose<\/strong>, and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Third, it must be\u00a0<strong>proportionate<\/strong>\u00a0i.e., such state action- both in its nature and extent, must be necessary in a democratic society and the action ought to be the least intrusive of the available alternatives to accomplish the ends.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer:&nbsp;(d) Article 21 Right to Privacy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[39],"years":[49],"class_list":["post-2402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-indian-polity","years-49"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":39,"label":"Indian Polity"}],"years":[{"value":49,"label":"2024"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":39,"name":"Indian Polity","slug":"indian-polity","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":39,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":188,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}