Under which of the following Articles of the Constitution of India, has the Supreme Court of India placed the Right to Privacy?

Answer: D. The Supreme Court placed the Right to Privacy under ARTICLE 21 of the Constitution. In the landmark K.S. Puttaswamy vs Union of India (2017) judgment, a 9-judge bench of the Supreme Court unanimously held that the Right to Privacy is a fundamental right protected as an INTRINSIC part of Article 21 (right to life and personal liberty) and as a component of the freedoms guaranteed by Part III of the Constitution. The judgment overruled earlier views (M.P. Sharma 1954, Kharak Singh 1962) that had denied privacy as a fundamental right. Privacy was held to flow primarily from the dignity, autonomy and personal liberty protected by Article 21. Distractors: (A) Article 15 is non-discrimination; (B) Article 16 is equality in public employment; (C) Article 19 is freedoms of speech/movement etc but not the primary anchor for privacy. Source: NCERT Class 11 Indian Constitution at Work Ch 2 (Rights in the Indian Constitution) / Puttaswamy judgment 2017.