SC Rejects PIL Seeking Round-The-Clock Digital Monitoring Of Lawmakers

The Supreme Court on Friday has trashed a PIL seeking a direction to the Centre to digitally monitor MPs and MLAs round the clock for better governance, saying ''there is something called right to privacy also."
A bench comprising Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud, Justice JP Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra asked whether the court can put a in the body of the lawmakers to track their movement round the clock. The CJI cautioned petitioner Surinder Nath Kundra (Delhi resident), that he should be ready to pay Rs.5 lakh as a fine for misusing the judicial time on such an issue.