The Supreme Court will pronounce its judgment in the case on Right to Privacy tomorrow..The matter was heard by a Bench of Chief Justice of India, JS Khehar and Justices Jasti Chelameswar, SA Bobde, RK Agarwal, Rohinton Nariman, AM Sapre, DY Chandrachud, SK Kaul and S Abdul Nazeer..A slew of Senior Advocates had appeared for various parties in the case..Senior Advocates Shyam Divan, Arvind Datar, Gopal Subramanium, Meenakshi Arora, Sajan Poovayya, Soli Sorabjee and Anand Grover had appeared for various individual petitioners arguing in favour of Right to Privacy..Besides them, States of Karnataka, West Bengal, Punjab, Kerala, Himachal Pradesh and Union Territory of Puducherry had also argued in favour of Privacy. Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal represented Karnataka, West Bengal, Punjab and Puducherry. Senior Advocate JS Attri appeared for Himachal Pradesh while Senior Advocate PV Surendra Nath represented Kerala..The Central government along with the States of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and UIDAI had opposed the petitioner’s stance that privacy is a fundamental right..The Central government was represented by Attorney General KK Venugopal. Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta appeared for UIDAI and Madhya Pradesh. Senior Advocate Aryama Sundaram appeared for Maharashtra while Gujarat was represented Senior Advocate Rakesh Dwivedi. Advocate Arghya Sengupta represented Haryana..The case was heard for six days by the Bench before it reserved its judgment..The judgment will have implications on the case relating to the validity of Aadhaar which is likely to be heard by a 5-judge Constitution Bench.
