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Directions: In each of the following questions a short passage is given with one of the lines in the passage missing and represented by a blank. Select the best out of the five choices given to make the passage complete and coherent. (Coherent means logically complete and sound.)

India is proud of its status as an IT superpower but when it comes to data protection and privacy laws it's safe to say we are not a world leader.________. Now a nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court has just finished hearing arguments in the Aadhaar case that centred around whether privacy is fundamental right, as defined by the Constitution. The bench was constituted because many petitioners had come before the court arguing that Aadhaar's biometric authentication scheme violated the privacy of Indians and thus infringed their fundamental rights. Since data is the lifeblood of the Information Age, it's certain that whichever way the court rules, the judgement will be a historic one.

A)  The centre is clearly determined to protect Aadhaar which has become one of its keystone schemes.

B)  On a different note, it argued that the right to privacy could not be used to deprive millions of poor people.

C)  That is an anomaly that is crying out to be corrected and there will be many battles before we reach a satisfactory conclusion.

D)  Against this, the opposing side argued that privacy was an intrinsic part of Right to Life under Article 21 and also Article 19.

E)  Whatever the decision, India, as a global information technology superpower, will have to greatly strengthen its data protection and privacy laws.