Mangaluru's Steve Jeff Lobo bags five gold medals at Vidya Bharati National Swimming Competition
Mangaluru: Steve Jeff Lobo, a second-PU student of the Shakti PU College, Mangaluru has bagged five gold medals in the recently held Vidya Bharati National Level Swimming competition held at Madasuri, Madhya Pradesh.
Steve will now take part in the 68th SGFI National Level Swimming Competition that will be held in Rajkot, Gujarat from November 23 to 30.
He participated in 50 meters, 100 meters, 200 meters butterfly, 4x100 freestyle relay and 4x100 IM medley relay and secured gold medals in all the five categories.
Steve is trained by Nagaraj Kharvi, a trainer at the ShaktiPU College. Steve Jeff Lobo is the son of Santhosh and Juliet, residents of Yekkur in Mangaluru.
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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.
