The Court of Ap­peal has raised the pos­si­bil­i­ty of cit­i­zens be­ing able to pur­sue law­suits against fel­low cit­i­zens for breach of their pri­va­cy.

Ap­pel­late Judges Mark Mo­hammed, Maria Wil­son and James Aboud con­sid­ered the is­sue as they were called up­on to ad­ju­di­cate over an ap­peal by two teenagers, who were caught locked in a toi­let at a shop­ping mall in Bar­rack­pore be­fore school.

While the ap­peal pan­el ruled that a High Court Judge was wrong to dis­miss as­pects of their case against the prop­er­ty own­er Kr­ishen Bas­deo, deal­ing with false im­pris­on­ment and bat­tery, it found that they were un­able to pur­sue a case in tort for breach of their pri­va­cy.