S. G. Vombatkere vs. Union Of India Ministry Of Home Affairs Secretary

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION

WRIT PETITION (C) NO.494 OF 2012

JUSTICE K.S.PUTTASWAMY(RETD) AND ANR. ....PETITIONER(S)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. …....RESPONDENT(S)

WITH

Digitally signed by SANJAY KUMAR Date: 2017.07.18 16:20:39 IST Reason:

Signature Not Verified

CONMT.PET.(C) No. 144/2014 In W.P.(C) No. 494/2012 W.P.(C) No. 220/2015, T.P.(C) No. 313/2014 T.P.(C) No. 312/2014, SLP(Crl) No. 2524/2014 CONMT.PET.(C) No. 844/2017 In W.P.(C) No. 494/2012 CONMT.PET.(C) No. 674/2015 In W.P.(C) No. 829/2013 T.P.(C) No. 921/2015 CONMT.PET.(C) No. 470/2015 In W.P.(C) No. 494/2012 CONMT.PET.(C) No. 444/2016 In W.P.(C) No. 494/2012 W.P.(C) No. 833/2013 CONMT.PET.(C) No. 608/2016 In W.P.(C) No. 494/2012 W.P.(C) No. 797/2016, W.P.(C) No. 829/2013 T.P.(C) No. 1797/2013, W.P.(C) No. 932/2013 W.P.(C) No. 37/2015, T.C.(C) No. 151/2013 T.C.(C) No. 152/2013, T.P.(C) No. 1796/2013 W.P.(C) No. 372/2017

O R D E R

During the course of the hearing today, it seems that it has become essential for us to determine whether there is any fundamental right of privacy under the Indian Constitution. The determination of this question would essentially entail whether the decision recorded by this Court in M.P. Sharma and Ors. vs. Satish Chandra, District Magistrate, Delhi and Ors. - 1950 SCR 1077 by an eight-Judge Constitution Bench, and also, in Kharak Singh

vs. The State of U.P. and Ors. - 1962 (1) SCR 332 by a six-Judge Constitution Bench, that there is no such fundamental right, is the correct expression of the constitutional position.

Before dealing with the matter any further, we are of the view that the issue noticed hereinabove deserves to be placed before the nine-Judge Constitution Bench. List these matters before the Nine-Judge Constitution Bench on 19.07.2017.

Liberty is granted to the learned counsel appearing for the rival parties to submit their written briefs in the meantime.

.......................CJI [JAGDISH SINGH KHEHAR]

.......................J [J. CHELAMESWAR]

.......................J [S. A. BOBDE]

.......................J [D.Y. CHANDRACHUD]

.......................J [S. ABDUL NAZEER]

New Delhi; July 18, 2017.

ITEM NO.501 COURT NO.1 SECTION PIL-W

S U P R E M E C O U R T O F I N D I A RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS

Writ Petition(s)(Civil) No(s).494/2012

JUSTICE K.S.PUTTASWAMY(RETD) AND ANR. Petitioner(s)

VERSUS

UNION OF INDIA AND ORS. Respondent(s)

WITH CONMT.PET.(C) No. 144/2014 In W.P.(C) No. 494/2012 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No. 220/2015 (PIL-W) T.P.(C) No. 313/2014 (XVI -A) T.P.(C) No. 312/2014 (XVI -A) SLP(Crl) No. 2524/2014 (II-A) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 844/2017 In W.P.(C) No. 494/2012 (PIL-W) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 674/2015 In W.P.(C) No. 829/2013 (PIL-W) T.P.(C) No. 921/2015 (XVI -A) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 470/2015 In W.P.(C) No. 494/2012 (PIL-W) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 444/2016 In W.P.(C) No. 494/2012 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No. 833/2013 (PIL-W) CONMT.PET.(C) No. 608/2016 In W.P.(C) No. 494/2012 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No. 797/2016 (PIL-W) (FOR [PERMISSION TO FILE ANNEXURES] ON IA 4/2016 FOR [DIRECTIONS] ON IA 5/2017 FOR STAY APPLICATION ON IA 6/2017) W.P.(C) No. 829/2013 (PIL-W) T.P.(C) No. 1797/2013 (XVI -A) W.P.(C) No. 932/2013 (PIL-W) W.P.(C) No. 37/2015 (PIL-W) T.C.(C) No. 151/2013 (XVI -A) T.C.(C) No. 152/2013 (XVI -A) T.P.(C) No. 1796/2013 (XVI -A) W.P.(C) No. 372/2017 (X)

Date : 18-07-2017 This petition was called on for hearing today. CORAM :

HON'BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE J. CHELAMESWAR HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S.A. BOBDE HON'BLE DR. JUSTICE D.Y. CHANDRACHUD HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE S. ABDUL NAZEER

Counsel for the parties

Mr. Shyam Divan, Sr. Adv. Mr. Vipin Nair, AOR Mr. P.B. Suresh, Adv.

Mr. Udayaditya Banerjee, Adv. Mr. S. Prasanna, Adv. Ms. Samiksha Godiyal, Adv. Mr. Abhay Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. Govind Manoharan, Adv. Ms. Aishwarya Bhati, AOR M/s K J John And Co, AOR Mr. J.M. Kalia, Adv. Mr. D. S. Mahra, AOR Mr. Prashant Bhushan, AOR Ms. Neha Rathi, Adv. Mr. Pranav Sachdeva, Adv. Dr. Abhishek Atrey, AOR Mr. Ravindra Lokhande, Adv. Mr. Shadan Farasat, AOR Ms. Jyoti Mendiratta, AOR Mr. Anish Kumar Gupta, AOR Mr. Chandra Shekhar Suman, Adv. Mr. R.K. Rajwanshi, Adv. Mrs. Rita Gupta, Adv. Ms. Priyanka Parida, Adv. Ms. Deepshikha Bharati, Adv. Mr. Lalit Bhasin, Adv. Ms. Nina Gupta, Adv. Mr. Mudit Sharma, Adv. Mr. Gopal Subramanian, Sr. Adv. Ms. Archana Pathak Dave, AOR Mr. Talha Abdul Rehman, Adv. Mr. Jaideep Singh, Adv. Mr. Ankur Kashyap, Adv. Mr. Prateek Chadha, Adv. Ms. Radhika Sharma, Adv. Mr. Aravind Datar, Sr. Adv. Ms. Geetha Kovilan, AOR Mr. P.R. Kovilan, Adv. Mr. M.K. Aswathi, Adv. Mr. Rahul Narayan, AOR

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Mr. Pranaya Kumar Mohapatra, AOR Mr. Chitta Ranjan Mishra, Adv. Mr. Bhanu Pratap Singh, Adv. Mr. D.P. Singh Yadav, Adv. Mr. K.K. Venugopal, AG Mr. Tushar Mehta, ASG Mr. Zoheb Hossain, AOR Mr. Rajat Nair, Adv. Mr. Ankur Talwar, Adv. Ms. Shraddha, Adv. Mr. Acharya Sengupta, Adv. Ms. Devika, Adv. Mr. Sajan Poovayya, Sr. Adv. Mr. Priyadarshi Banerjee, Adv. Mr. Pratibhanu S. Kharola, Adv. For Mr. E. C. Agrawala, AOR Mr. Milind Kumar, AOR Mr. Gopal Singh, AOR Ms. Vimla Sinha, Adv. Mr. Rituraj Biswas, Adv. Mr. Amit Sharma, AOR Mr. Dinkar Kalra, AOR Mr. Jayant Bhushan, Sr. Adv. Mr. H. S. Parihar, AOR Mr. K.S. Parihar, Adv. Mr. K. Ramamoorthy, Sr. Adv. Mr. Dipak K. Nag, Adv. Mr. Sanjiv Das, Adv. Mr. Parmanand Gaur, Adv. Mr. Kalyan Bandopadhyay, Sr. Adv. Mr. Soumitra G. Chaudhuri, Adv. Mr. Chanchal K. Ganguli, Adv. Mr. Mohit D. Ram, AOR Mr. S. Udaya Kumar Sagar, AOR Mr. Guntur Prabhakar, AOR Mr. Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Adv. Ms. Savita Singh, AOR

Mr. Jayant Mohan, AOR Mr. Sanjay Kapur, AOR Ms. Megha Karnwal, Adv. Ms. Mansi Kapur, Adv. Ms. Shubhra Kapur, Adv. Mr. C.A. Sundaram, Adv. Mr. Nishant Ramakantrao Katneshwarkar, AOR Mr. Ranjan Mukherjee, AOR Mr. T. G. Narayanan Nair, AOR Mr./Ms. Nitya Madhusoodhanan, Adv. Mr. V. G. Pragasam, AOR Mr. Prabhu Ramasubramanian, Adv. Mr. Jagjit Singh Chhabra, AOR Mr. Jatinder Kumar Bhatia, AOR Mr. Ashutosh Kumar Sharma, Adv. Mr. Abhinav Mukerji, AOR Mr. Mishra Saurabh, AOR Mr. Manish Vashishtha, AOR Mr. Sanjay Kumar Visen, AOR Mr. Anil Grover, AAG Mr. Mishal Vij, Adv. Mr. Shiv Mangal Sharma, AAG Mr. Lalit Mohapatra, Adv. Ms. Ruchi Kohli, AOR Mr. S. Mukerjee, Adv. Mr. Manoj K. Mishra, AOR Mr. Umesh Dubey, Adv. Ms. Aruna Mathur, Adv. Mr. Avneesh Arputham, Adv. Ms. Anuradha Arputham, Adv. Mr. Amit Arora, Adv. For M/s Arputham Aruna & Co, AOR Mr. J.S. Attri, Sr. Adv. Mr. Varinder Kumar Sharma, AOR Mr. Chandra Nand Jha, Adv. M/s Corporate Law Group, AOR

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Mr. Jugal Kishore Gilda, AG Mr. Aniruddha P. Mayee, AOR Mr. Charudatta Mahindrakar, Adv. Mr. A. Selvin Raja, Adv. Mr. A.M. Oza, Adv. Mr. Chirag Jain, Adv. Mr. Garvesh Kabra, AOR Mr. Arjun Khera, Adv. Mr. Sahil Khanna, Adv. Mr. Harish Pandey, AOR Mr. R. Sudhinder, Adv. Mr. Ashok Mathur, AOR Ms. Amrita Sarkar, Adv. Mrs. Anil Katiyar, AOR Mr. Anip Sachthey, AOR Mr. Rakesh Diwedi, Sr. Adv. Ms. Hemantika Wahi, AOR Ms. Jesal Wahi, Adv. Ms. Shodhika Sharma, Adv. Mr. Anand Grover, Sr. Adv. Mr. Prasanna S., Adv. Ms. Pripti Tandon, Adv. Ms. Lorainne Misquita, Adv. Mr. Suraj Sanap, Adv. Ms. Priyam Cheriyan, Adv. Ms. Srinidih Rao, Adv. Mr. Vijayant Singh, Adv. Mr. Apar Gupta, Adv. Mr. Nipun Saxena, Adv. Mr. Anando Mukherjee, Adv. Ms. Anitha Shenoy, AOR Applicant-in-person, AOR Mr. Jogy Scaria, AOR Mr. Wills Mathews, Adv. For Mr. Rabin Majumder, AOR Mr. Sapam Biswajit Meitei, Adv. Mr. Naresh Kumar Gaur, Adv. Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh, Adv.

Mr. K.V. Jagdishvaran, Adv. Mrs. G. Indira, Adv. Mr. C.D. Singh, AAG Ms. Shivali Chaudhary, Adv. Ms. Sakshi Kakar, Adv. Mr. Joseph Aristotle S., Adv. Mrs. Priya Aristotle, Adv. Mr. Ashish Yadav, Adv. Ms. Romsha Raj, Adv. Mr. Tapesh K. Singh, Adv. Mr. Mohd. Waques, Adv. Ms. Tannishtha Singh, Adv. Ms. Ayushi Gupta, Adv. For M/s. Meharia & Company, AOR Mr. M. Shoeb Alam, Adv. Ms. Fauzia Shakil, Adv. Mr. Ujjwal Singh, Adv. Mr. Mojahid Karim Khan, Adv. Mr. Julien George, Adv. Mr. Arjun Ranganathan, Adv. Mr. Yatin Garg, Adv. Mr. Nikhil Nayyar, Adv. Mr. Karan Bharihoke, Adv. Mr. Nishe Rajen Shonker, Adv. Mr. Anu K. Joy, Adv. UPON hearing the counsel the Court made the following O R D E R

List these matters before the Nine-Judge Constitution Bench on 19.07.2017, in terms of the signed order.

(Sanjay Kumar-II) (Indu Kumari Pokhriyal) (Renuka Sadana) Court Master Branch Officer Assistant Registrar (Signed Order is placed on the file)

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