, the 9-judge constitutional bench explicitly crystallized the concept of a fundamental right to privacy under Art. 21 of the Indian Constitution. Similar to other fundamental rights under Part-III, the Court held that the said right is not absolute. Nevertheless, it was articulated that every State action interfering with the privacy of an individual, to be construed as being constitutionally valid, must satisfy the notable three-fold test. The third prong of this test obligates that State actions intruding into the privacy must satisfy the test of proportionality.
This leads us to the obvious question, that is,
what does the test of proportionality necessitate?
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