The Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned the government’s stand that right to privacy is not a fundamental right. “If a man is not safe in his own house, then what remains in Article 21 (right to life and liberty)? Where is the liberty then? If privacy is not there in liberty, then what else can be there? To say that it (right to privacy) is not at all there will not be right. We will not accept it,” said a three-judge bench led by Justice J.

The bench was responding to a submission by Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi, who said the Constitution does not state that right to privacy is a fundamental right, and the issue needs to be considered by a Constitution Bench.