Protest campaign led by Ivan D’Souza against fuel price hike
Mangaluru, September 7: A protest campaign will be held under the leadership of MLC Ivan D’Souza against the fuel price hike.
Releasing the pamphlets on the campaign to be held in association with various organizations here on Friday, D’Souza said that an awareness jatha would be taken out from Urva market to other places in the city.
Urging the centre to bring petroleum products under GST, he said that the centre has failed to contain the price hike of fuel products and allowed the corporate companies to loot the country. Though the crude oil prices were reduced in the international market, the prices of petrol, diesel and gas have skyrocketed. During 2014, the crude oil price was 108.26 dollars per barrel and then the maximum petrol price was just Rs 65. Now, one barrel of crude oil would cost 63 dollars and the petrol price has gone up to Rs 81.63. The people have paid the tax for the last four years, but the centre has not divulged the information about its utilization. The gas cylinder price was gone from Rs 400 in 2014 to Rs 813 in 2018. After Modi became the Prime Minister, central excise tax was increased 12 times. According to statistics, the centre has been exporting petrol for 15 countries at Rs 34 per litre, and diesel for 27 countries at Rs 37 per litre. The centre should answer it, he demanded.
As part of the campaign, awareness programmes would be held in different places for two days. On September 8 at 4 pm, the programme would be held at Hampankatta in which 28 different organizations would participate. On September 10, a protest march would be taken from Hampankatta to the deputy commissioner’s office and would hold a convention, he said.
Awareness meetings
Today at 5 pm, the awareness meeting would be held at Urva Market, Urva Auto stand at 6 pm, Kudroli Jodupalli at 7 pm, Bandaru police station at 8 pm, Kandakpete at 8:30 pm.
On September 8 at 6 pm, railway station near Kudroli Circle, KMC Attavar at 7 pm, Mahakali Padpu at 8pm, Valencia Circle at 8.30 pm, Kankanady Maidan at 9 pm.
Leaders of various organizations Dayanand Kotian, Nagendra Kumar, advocate Dinakar Shetty, Punith Shetty 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.
