Privacy a fundamental right: Social media hails landmark SC ruling

SC said that the Right to Privacy is protected under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution

The Supreme Court's nine-judge Bench, in a unanimous judgement on Thursday, upheld the Right to Privacy as a fundamental right.

Overruling the M P Sharma (1962) and Kharak Singh (1954) judgements, the apex court said that the Right to Privacy is protected under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution. 

As of this afternoon, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had not commented on the ruling.

Here's how social media reacted to the landmark judgement

Celebrating the judgement, former finance minister and Congress leader P Chidambaram took to Twitter and wrote that the "freedom that was won in 1947 has been enriched