UPSC Prelims 2018 · Question 92 of 99
UPSC Prelims 2018 question on Right to Privacy Article 21
- ExamUPSC CSE
- Year2018
- PaperGeneral Studies Paper I
- SubjectPolity
- TopicFundamental Rights
- DifficultyEasy
- TypeDirect
Right to Privacy is protected as an intrinsic part of Right to Life and Personal Liberty. Which of the following in the Constitution of India correctly and appropriately imply the above statement?
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Answer: C. Article 21 and the freedoms guaranteed in Part III
Analysis
Article 21 and the freedoms guaranteed in Part III are the correct reference, so the answer is (c).
In K. S. Puttaswamy and others versus Union of India and others, the Supreme Court held that the right to privacy is an integral part of the right to life and personal liberty guaranteed by Article 21, adding that the right to privacy is intrinsic to the entire fundamental rights chapter of the Constitution. Option (c) captures both halves of that holding, the specific Article and the wider Part III.
The distractors pair an unrelated Article with an unrelated amendment or Part. Article 14 concerns equality, Article 17 abolishes untouchability, and Article 24 prohibits child labour in hazardous employment, and none of these was the basis of the privacy judgment.
Source
The Hindu resource page on the Supreme Court verdict on the right to privacy.
How to crack it
The stem quotes the judgment's own language, right to life and personal liberty, which is the heading of Article 21, so the answer is signposted in the question itself. Read the stem for constitutional phrases that map directly onto an Article, since UPSC often embeds the answer in the wording. Learn the landmark judgment together with the Article it construes.