Section 21: Right to privacy deemed to be violated

1) If any person commits, save in accordance with law, any of the following acts without obtaining consent of the concerned person, he or she shall be deemed to have violated the right to privacy:

(a) Entry into any person’s residence,

(b) Opening a person’s correspondence or using it, taping or recording, or listening to the discourse, speech, sound through the medium of telephone or other technology,

(c) Watching, publishing, broadcasting, or disseminating activities, behaviors of the personal life of a person,

(d) Taking a figure or a photograph of a person,

(e) Imitating others’ names, figures, photographs, sounds, and making the same public.

2) Notwithstanding anything contained in clause (d) or (e) of sub-section (1), if a person commits any act referred to in the said clauses for literary or artistic purposes or public interest, the right to privacy shall not be deemed to have been violated.