The Madras High Court in a recent judgment held that “spousal privacy is a fundamental right and documents violating it are not evidence”. The Madurai bench of the Court refused to accept as evidence the call record documents of a woman, obtained stealthily by her husband to seek divorce on the grounds of adultery and cruelty. The verdict is important as it goes a long way in maintaining that the right to privacy trumps all rights
The Supreme Court on Monday continued its hearing on a batch of petitions seeking SIT/judicial probe into the reports of snooping using the Israel spyware Pegasus.