NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday requested the Supreme Court to set up a bench of five or more judges to adjudicate whether right to privacy was part of a citizen's fundamental right given the conflicting rulings given by the apex court on this issue in the last 60 years.

Appearing for the Centre, attorney general Mukul Rohatgi told a three-judge bench headed by Justices J Chelameswar that an eight-judge bench in 1954 in MP Sharma case, followed by a six-judge bench judgment in Kharak Singh case in 1964, had ruled that right to privacy was not part of the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution to citizens.