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Right to Privacy (Puttaswamy Principles)
Constitutional & Public Law Doctrines
Definition
The fundamental right recognized under Article 21 in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) v. Union of India, protecting individual spatial, bodily, and informational autonomy from arbitrary State or private intrusion.
Example
A state police directive requiring mandatory installation of facial-recognition CCTV cameras inside private residential societies without a backing legislative statute is struck down as a violation of the right to privacy.