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News18
24-05-2025
- News18
'Right To Be Left Alone': Delhi Court Upholds Wife's Privacy After Major's Plea For Hotel CCTV
Last Updated: A Delhi court rejected an Army Major's plea for hotel CCTV footage to prove his wife's alleged affair, citing the right to privacy. A Delhi court on Friday rejected a plea by a man and upheld the right to privacy of his wife, whom he alleged was having an affair with a man. The man identified himself as Major in the Indian Army and sought the CCTV footage of a hotel, where he alleged his wife was with another man, also a Major. 'The right to privacy and to be left alone in a hotel would extend to the common areas as against a third party who was not present there and has no other legally justifiable entitlement to seek the data of the guest. The same would hold good for the booking details," civil judge Vaibhav Pratap Singh of Patiala House Court observed, as he upheld the right to privacy of the wife and her alleged lover. He added that the concept of 'stealing' the affection of a wife by another man, as if a woman is not in control of whom she loves, is 'dated" and has been rightly rejected by the Supreme Court Joseph Shine v. Union of India. 'The dated idea of a man stealing away the wife of another man, without ascribing any role or responsibility to the woman, is to be rejected. It takes agency away from women and dehumanises them," the judge said. The court also cited the novel 'The End of the Affair' by Graham Greene, and said that even the Indian Parliament has given its imprimatur to the said jurisprudence when, while doing away with the colonial penal law, it enacted the The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and did not retain therein the offence of adultery, showing that the 'modern day Bharat has no place for gender- condescension and patriarchal notions." As the major alleged his wife, with whom he was involved in a marital dispute and divorce, visited the hotel with her alleged paramour, the judge observed that hotels generally owe a duty of confidentiality to their guests and are required to protect the privacy of their records, including booking details and CCTV footage. The court also said that the wife and her alleged paramour were central to the husband's claims, but they were not impleaded in the suit, which raised significant questions about their right to be heard before any disclosure was made. Further, the judge said that courts are not meant to serve as investigative bodies for private disputes or as instruments for the collection of evidence in internal proceedings, especially when no clear legal entitlement to that evidence exists. First Published: May 24, 2025, 11:12 IST
New Indian Express
23-05-2025
- New Indian Express
50-year-old marriage broker stabbed to death in Mangaluru
MANGALURU: A 30-year-old man was arrested for fatally stabbing a marriage broker and injuring his two sons in Valachil, Mangaluru, on Thursday night. According to the Mangaluru city police commissioner Anupam Agrawal, Suleman (50), a resident of Vamanjoor, had facilitated the marriage of the accused, Mustafa (30), a relative, with a woman named Shaheenaz about eight months ago. But due to subsequent marital discord, Shaheenaz had returned to her parental home two months prior to the incident, leading to tension between Mustafa and Suleman. On Thursday night, Mustafa allegedly made an abusive call to Suleman. In response, Suleman, along with his sons Riyab and Siyab, visited Mustafa's residence in Valachil to settle the differences amicably. While the sons waited by the roadside, Suleman went to speak to Mustafa. A short while later, Suleman returned and reveleaed to her sons that the discussion was unfruitful and they should leave. At that moment, Mustafa reportedly came running from his house, shouting threats in the Byari language, and suddenly attacked Suleman with a knife, stabbing him in the right side of the neck. Suleman sustained injury and collapsed on the spot. Mustafa then assaulted both sons, stabbing Siyab in the left side of the chest and Riyab on the right forearm. With the help of locals, the injured were taken to Janapriya Hospital around 11 PM. Suleman was declared brought dead, and both Riyab and Siyab were admitted for treatment. Based on the complaint, case has been registered at Mangaluru Rural Police Station under Sections 103(1), 109(1), 118(1), 351(2), 351(3), and 352 of The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023. Further investigation is on.
The Hindu
01-05-2025
- Politics
- The Hindu
10 booked for attacking Dalit couple in Bidar
Bidar Police have registered a case against 10 men for assaulting a Dalit couple at Khudawandpur village in Bhalki taluk of Bidar district on Wednesday when Basava Jayanti was being celebrated. As per a complaint lodged by Anitha Dattatri Bhalke with Mehakar Police Station, a group of people, whom she referred to as Savarnas, disrupted a public procession being taken out to celebrate B.R. Ambedkar Jayanti in the village at about 9 p.m. on Tuesday and the police present on the scene intervened in a timely manner and pacified both sides. She added that the group, harbouring the previous night's anger, came to her, and one of the group members, Akash Ashok Mainale, beat her up with a belt, apart from abusing her with casteist slurs. She also said that the group attacked her husband, Dattatri Satawaji Bhalke, and threatened him with murder. Based on the complaint, the police have registered a case against 10 people, Datta Shankar Sangame, Kishan Shankar Sangame, Bheem Shivaji Sangame, Ramkishan Sangame, Ashok Chandrappa Mainale, Ganesh Ashok Mainale, Vishnu Duryodhan Sangame, Vikas Ashok Mainale, Sushanth Sunil Patil and Abhishek Ambadas Hupale, under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989 and various sections of The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Meanwhile, Minister of Forest, Ecology and Environment and Bidar in-charge Eshwara Khandre, on Thursday, directed the Deputy Commissioner to visit Khudawandpur village, hold a peace meeting and take stringent action against the perpetrators. Reacting to the incident later in the day through a media note, Mr. Khandre expressed anguish over such incidents occurring during the birth anniversary of reformers like Basavanna who envisioned an egalitarian society and Dr. Ambedkar who gave a voice to the oppressed through the Constitution and emphasised that such unfortunate events go against the spirit of social harmony and justice. Condemning the violence in Khudawandpur, the Minister called upon the people of Bidar, which, he said, is known for its peaceful coexistence, to maintain calm and resist attempts at sowing the seeds of division. He also directed the authorities to take all necessary precautions during public events to prevent communal tension and ensure that no community feels threatened or targeted. 'If such incidents recur, the district administration and the police will be held responsible,' Mr. Khandre warned, adding that no one, regardless of their status, will be spared from legal consequences.
