Shilpa Shetty and Privacy Jurisprudence

<p data-pm-slice="1 1 []">Other than you, who can talk about your sex life? A right to privacy means determining the boundaries about what can be spoken about, and what cannot be spoken about. In this episode of <em>The Longest Constitution</em>, we progress with our examination of the evolution of privacy rights and look at a case concerning the actress Shilpa Shetty and her private life. We also look at a ‘reasonable’ restriction’ on our fundamental right to the expression: contempt of court. Finally, a little bit about what makes the Aadhar card a violation of our rights. </p><p><strong>On privacy: </strong></p><ol><li data-list-indent="1" data-list-type="bulleted"><p>Bhatia, Gautam, 2016, <em>Offend, Shock, or Disturb: Free Speech under the Indian Constitution</em>, (New Delhi: OUP). Chapter 8. </p></li><li data-list-indent="1" data-list-type="bulleted"><p><u><a href="https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1222884/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://indiankanoon.org/doc/1222884/</a></u></p></li></ol><p><strong>On contempt of court and the Delhi sealing case: </strong></p><ol><li data-list-indent="1" data-list-type="bulleted"><p>Roy, Arundhati, ‘Scandal in the Palace’, Available at: <a href="https://www.countercurrents.org/roy250907.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.countercurrents.org/roy250907.htm</a></p></li><li data-list-indent="1" data-list-type="bulleted"><p>Bhuwania, Anuj, 2016, <em>Courting the People: Public Interest Litigation in Post-Emergency India</em>, (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press). </p></li><li data-list-indent="1" data-list-type="bulleted"><p><a href="https://www.livemint.com/Politics/KCYobHBh0bp2ODK2IiVFYK/MidDay-staff-held-guilty-of-contempt.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.livemint.com/Politics/KCYobHBh0bp2ODK2IiVFYK/MidDay-staff-held-guilty-of-contempt.html</a></p></li></ol><p><strong>On judicial independence: </strong></p><ol><li data-list-indent="1" data-list-type="bulleted"><p>Sengupta, Arghya and Ritwika Sharma, (2018)