Kodagu-Sakleshpur natural calamity: Shri Kshetra Dharmasthala donates Rs. 10 crore
Belthangady, Sep.7: Shri Kshetra Dharmasthala has donated Rs. 10 crore to the Kodagu natural calamity relief fund, stated a release by Dr. D Veerendra Heggade on Friday.
On Friday Dr. Heggade analysed the losses incurred by rain in Kodagu. Kodagu district director Yogesh submitted the survey report to Dr. Heggade. The donation will be helpful to 1,715 families that suffered huge losses in this region due to heavy downpour and landslides.
Dr. Heggade said that, Rs. 25,000 each will be given to the families that lost their homes, Rs. 15,000 each for 1,335 families to buy daily use items. Rs. 25,000 each to 1,117 families that suffered agricultural losses.
He also said that Rs. 10,000 each will be given to the families that suffered losses in Sakleshpur and Arkalgud in Hassan district and that will be distributed through Dharmasthala rural development scheme.
Rs. 2 crore for Chief minister's relief fund:
6,750 permanent staff of Dharmasthala rural development scheme have donated their three days salary to the chief minister's relief fund. Dharmasthala rural development has added the same amount to make it Rs. 2 crore. The total amount will be donated to Chief minister's relief fund, Dr. Heggade said.
Little relief from Self help scheme loans:
As it would not be possible for 1000 members of self help groups and hit by floods, to pay loans borrowed from self help groups on time, their loan terms will be pushed for extra 12 weeks, said president of self help group.
Dr. L. H. Manjunath, executive director of the scheme, Mahaveer Ajri, Coastal regional director, Shrihari, Mysuru regional director, Yogesh, Kodagu district director and others were present.
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Madras HC rules spousal privacy as a fundamental right, disallows evidence obtained through snooping
Chennai: In a landmark judgment, the Madras High Court emphasized the protection of spousal privacy as a fundamental right, ruling that evidence obtained by one spouse snooping on the other is inadmissible in court. This ruling came as Justice G.R. Swaminathan overturned a lower court's decision that had allowed a husband to submit his wife's call records in a marital dispute case.
The court made it clear that privacy, as a constitutionally guaranteed right, includes the privacy of married individuals from each other, rejecting the notion that marital misconduct permits invasion of personal privacy. "Law cannot proceed on the premise that marital misconduct is the norm. Privacy as a fundamental right includes spousal privacy, and evidence obtained by invading this right is inadmissible," stated the court.
The case originated in Paramakudi Subordinate Court, where the husband submitted the wife's call data as evidence to support claims of adultery, cruelty, and desertion. He had obtained these records without her consent, an act the High Court deemed a violation of privacy. Additionally, the call records were not accompanied by a certificate under Section 65B(4) of the Indian Evidence Act, making them procedurally inadmissible.
Justice Swaminathan noted that allowing such evidence would open doors to spouses spying on each other, damaging the foundational trust in marital relationships. “Trust forms the bedrock of matrimonial relationships. The spouses must have implicit and total faith in each other. Snooping destroys the fabric of marital life,” he stated.
The High Court further advised that allegations of misconduct could be pursued through authorized methods, such as interrogatories or affidavits, cautioning that the court must not assume marital misconduct as a norm justifying privacy breaches.
