in a constitutional democracy, individuals are never completely without recourse. One of the key features of our system of governance is the elaborate checks and balances that have been put in place to ensure that the authority of the state is always kept in check. As a result, even if the state abuses its power to the detriment of individual rights, citizens always have the ability to seek recourse from the independent judiciary against the excesses of the state. Unfortunately, in the case of the right to privacy, it took nearly six decades for the Indian judiciary to finally come up with a
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