He said he maintained the view he had taken in court that the framers of the Constitution did not intend to make privacy a fundamental right. “If I was there (as Attorney General), I would have said we have lost the case. He, however, had quit the top law officer’s post before the nine-judge bench was set up to hear the privacy case in July. During the hearing in the privacy case, the new Attorney General, K K Venugopal, had told the court that privacy could be a “wholly qualified” fundamental right. For example, there can be a challenge for the right of getting good medical treatment to be converted into a fundamental right.

Source: Indian Express August 26, 2017 23:24 UTC