Justice K S Puttaswamy, the former Karnataka High Court judge and the lead petitioner in the seminal ‘right to privacy case’, passed away at Bengaluru.
After retirement in 1986, he was appointed as the first Vice-Chairman of the Bengaluru bench of the Central Administrative Tribunal.
He had also served as the chairperson of the Andhra Pradesh backward Classes Commission.
In 2012, at the age of 86, Justice Puttaswamy would be one of the first litigants to challenge the Aadhaar scheme.
This had led to a historic decision in August 2017 where a nine-judge bench unanimously recognised the fundamental right to privacy in the case of Justice K S Puttaswamy (Retd.) v. Union of India.