After Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad claimed that the Centre backed privacy as fundamental right, former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi said he would have admitted that the government lost the case. The eight-judge bench has been overruled (an eight-judge bench had ruled in 1954 that the right to privacy cannot be a fundamental right) and the Aadhaar issue has been left unresolved. Rohatgi had previously argued against treating privacy as a fundamental right. "The fundamental rights are engrafted in the Constitution so they have to be physically put in a book called the Constitution," Rohatgi argued as the then Attorney General. The top-level law officer has widely believed that there are two spheres - judiciary and Parliament - and both cannot overlap each other.

Source: dna August 27, 2017 11:22 UTC