No fundamental right to privacy under Constitution: Centre tells Supreme Court

NEW DELHI: Narendra Modi government on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that citizens dont have fundamental right to privacy under the Constitution.

Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi told a bench headed by Justice J Chelameswar that constitution does not confer right to privacy to citizens and he referred a SC verdict delivered in 1950s in which a eight judge bench had held that right to privacy was not a fundamental rights.

He told the bench that law on right to privacy is vague in the country and pleaded the court that a larger bench should be constituted to pass an authoritative verdict on the issue.

The court was hearing a bunch of petition challenging constitutional validity of Aadhaar scheme on the ground that the programme violates citizens right to privacy.

The AG said that there does not arise any question of violation of righ when it is not there.