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Meet the warriors who fought Right to Privacy case

War veterans, social activists, techies, lawyers battle it out against the Big Brother in apex court

Aruna Roy, Bezwada Wilson
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Magsaysay winners Bezwada Wilson and Aruna Roy among the petitioners of the Right to Privacy case.

N Sundaresha Subramanian New Delhi
The right to privacy case before the nine-judge Bench is likely to be referred by the name of 92-year old retired judge K S Puttaswamy, who was the first petitioner in the case. 
But, there were several prominent and not-so-prominent names that took the fight to the government, which had, at one point, argued that individuals cannot claim absolute right even over their own bodies. There were 20 other petitions, including some special leave petitions, writs and half a dozen contempt petitions, which were clubbed with Puttaswamy’s public interest litigation (PIL). 

The judgment itself acknowledged the assistance by the senior