Poovamma who bagged gold in Asiad reaches Mangaluru
Mangaluru, Sept 06: M.R. Poovamma, the leading Indian athlete who won the gold medal at the recently concluded 18th Asian Games in Jakarta in Indonesia, and the silver medal in the mixed relay; received a grand welcome at Mangaluru airport today.
At the welcome ceremony, organized by DK district administration, DK district panchayat, Municipal Corporation, Youth Empowerment, and Sports Department; MLA Vedavyas Kamath, Councillors, Chairman of Alva's Education Foundation Dr. M Mohan Alva, Chairman of Sahyadri Education Foundation Manjunath Bhandary, Poovamma’s parents, Sports coaches and others greeted her.
Medal dedicated to parents - Kodagu: M.R. Poovamma
Achieve this success was possible only through the encouragement and support of my parents. Therefore, I will dedicate these medals to parents and flood-hit victims of Kodagu," she said.
I am delighted by this welcome. I had received the same reception in 2014 as well. Now I have to prepare for the next year’s Asian Championship and World Championship. The decision about the preparation camps will be taken in October. I am looking forward to participate in the Olympics in 2020. That training will begin from next year, "Poovamma said.
"Yesterday I met Prime Minister and sports minister, they encouraged and promised assistance to me," she added.
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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.
