A nine-judge SC bench , on August 24, 2017, held that an inalienable fundamental right to privacy resides in Article 21 of the Constitution of India and other fundamental freedoms contained in Part III of the Constitution.[1] It however observed that the fundamental right to privacy must yield in given circumstances to legitimate State interests and will be subject to reasonable restrictions. Consequently, any encroachment to privacy will have to subscribe to the touchstone of permissible restrictions and invasion of privacy would have to be justified against the standard of a fair, just and reasonable procedure.However, the SC did not categorically comment on the Aadhar scheme, which was the original subject matter in the context of which the nine-judge bench had been constituted. The bench observed that it had not been constituted to look into the constitutional validity of the Aadhar scheme, and the same is currently pending before another bench of the SC.[1]     Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India and Ors., WP (Civil) No. 494 of 2012.