Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Indian Supreme Court

Re:Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Indian Supreme... by vkrm on Thursday August 24, 2017 @03:56AM (#15088380)

"Reasonable restrictions" are not very well defined in the Indian constitution. They are quite broad and open to interpretation on a case-by-case basis.

  "... the State can impose reasonable restrictions in the
  interests of the sovereignty and integrity of India, the
  security of the State, friendly relations with foreign
  States, public order, decency or morality or in relation 
  to contempt of court, defamation or incitement to an
  offence."

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Re:Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Indian Supreme... by nileshtrivedi on Thursday August 24, 2017 @04:27AM (#15088472)

Justice A.P.Shah panel had recommended principles for privacy which goes into quite a bit of detail. So there is a guiding light and not everything will be case-by-case basis.

http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/genrep/rep_privacy....

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Re:Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Indian Supreme... by product50 on Thursday August 24, 2017 @04:18AM (#15088440)

Can reasonable restrictions be put on fundamental rights as well? So you are suggesting that the right to life has reasonable restrictions -- that in order to be friendly to a foreign state, the nation state can murder their citizens?

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Re:Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Indian Supreme... by srean on Thursday August 24, 2017 @04:39AM (#15088517)

> So you are suggesting that the right to life has reasonable restrictions

Please read what he said, he is not saying that, the thing he quoted is, and that thing I believe is the constitution as it stands now.

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Re:Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Indian Supreme... by thanksgiving on Thursday August 24, 2017 @04:30AM (#15088492)

Sorry for being off topic but I believe fundamental rights do not and should not require a citizenship test. If we hold these rights to be fundamental, we must not be willing to tolerate violations of such rights of any person in our jurisdiction.

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Re:Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Indian Supreme... by vkrm on Thursday August 24, 2017 @06:57AM (#15089059)

I'm not suggesting anything, the Constitution of India specifically allows for "reasonable restrictions". The right to life does have restrictions - the death penalty is still legal in India.

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