LS poll: Muslim Central Committee urges Congress to give ticket to Muslims in DK
Mangaluru, September 7: Dakshina Kannada and Udupi district Central Committee of Muslims urged the Congress to give ticket to Muslim candidate for Lok Sabha election from Dakshina Kannada.
An executive committee meeting chaired by its president Haji KS Mohammed Masood on Tuesday took a resolution to this effect.
In a press release, the committee said that it was decided in the meeting to urge AICC president Rahul Gandhi, state incharge KC Venugopal, KPCC president Dinesh Gundu Rao and DCC president Harish Kumar seeking ticket to a Muslim candidate for the forthcoming Lok Sabha election from the Dakshina Kannada constituency.
It was also decided to urge the party to give tickets to the Muslim candidates for the next Legislative Council and Rajya Sabha elections. The district has majority voters from Muslim community. In the last Assembly election, more than 90 per cent Muslims have supported the Congress due to which, the community should be given proper representation, they demanded.
Committee vice president Haji Ibrahim Kodijal, K Ashraf, Haji Basha Tangal, general secretary Mohammad Hanif and others were present at the meeting.
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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.
