Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v Union of India

Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v Union of India, known as the Right to Privacy case, was a 2017 decision in which a nine judge bench of the Supreme Court of India unanimously held that the right to privacy is a fundamental right protected under the Constitution's guarantees of life, personal liberty and other fundamental freedoms, overruling earlier decisions that had denied privacy that status. The case arose from a constitutional challenge to the Aadhaar biometric identity scheme. The judgment also expressly overruled the reasoning of the Emergency era Habeas Corpus case, ADM Jabalpur v Shivakant Shukla, and it went on to underpin the Supreme Court's 2018 decision decriminalizing consensual same sex relations in Navtej Singh Johar v Union of India.