The battle against the right to privacy being elevated to a fundamental right gained momentum on Thursday as Maharashtra joined in.

“Privacy is not a stand-alone right. It could be relative to existing enumerated rights under the Constitution,” the state’s counsel C.A. Sundaram claimed in Supreme Court.

He opposed the idea of an ‘undefined right that was ambiguous in nature’ being granted the status of a fundamental right. Privacy is a mere concept and one person’s concept of it would differ from another’s, he said.

Responding to this, Chief Justice J.S Khehar cited the example of dignity as a concept being recognized under the Constitution.

It was contended that the court could not take a word that did not have an exactitude and was subject to several interpretations and inject it expressly as a fundamental right.