The Government of India, on August 3, withdrew the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 (PDP Bill), with a caveat that it would be replaced by a “comprehensive framework” in alignment with contemporary digital privacy laws. Keeping in view the frenetic pace of digitalisation, and vast ‘data’ resources being created, it is mandatory for India to come up with a robust data protection law. The Supreme Court in the iconic Puttaswamy case (2017), had asked the government to come up with a robust data protection law. Pursuant to this, a report was submitted by Justice Srikrishna Committee in 2018