Find out various Supreme Court cases that have focused on the rights and liberty of Indian citizens.

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  • Supreme Court declares the Right to Privacy as a fundamental right that is intrinsic to life and liberty. This was declared in the K.S. Puttaswamy vs Union of India by a bench of judges headed by the then Chief Justice J. S. Khehar. 
  • Supreme Court in September 2018 decriminalized gay sex (Section 377). This was a vestige of British colonial rule. 
  • Supreme Court set aside ‘instant talaq’ (talaq-e-bidat) on the basis that it violated constitutional provisions. This was on a petition by Shayara Bano (2016).

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