When love requires a permit and faith demands a government stamp, is privacy dead? We analyze the high-stakes Supreme Court battle over anti-conversion laws that threatens to turn the personal choices of the bedroom and prayer room into matters of state surveillance.

The Punjab & Haryana High Court has struck down the practice of requiring an accused to continuously share their live Google Maps location as a bail condition. The Court held this to be an excessive and disproportionate infringement of the fundamental right to privacy under Article 21. Calling the practice a form of "virtual confinement," the judgment emphasized that any restriction on a fundamental right must be reasonable and satisfy the test of proportionality