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November 2 , 2024
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- 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.
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