Justice KS Puttaswamy, former Karnataka Excessive Court docket decide and the lead petitioner within the seminal ‘proper to privateness case’, handed away on Monday, on the age of 98, reported LiveLaw.
Appointed as a decide within the Karnataka Excessive Court docket in 1977, he served as a decide till his retirement in 1986.
Following his retirement, he briefly served because the vice chairperson of the Central Administrative Tribunal in Bengaluru.
Justice Puttaswamy famously challenged the constitutional validity of the Aadhar scheme, which led to the Supreme Court docket recognising the appropriate to privateness underneath the elemental proper to life underneath Article 21 of the Structure.
