Puttaswamy 2017
Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) v. Union of India, (2017) 10 SCC 1: nine-judge bench Supreme Court of India judgment holding that privacy is a fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution and establishing a four-part proportionality test for state interference with privacy.
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