September 10-11: National Level Seminar at St. Aloysius College
Mangaluru, Sept 07: A two-day national level seminar on the topic 'Radioactive Materials and Uses of Radiation' has been organized on September 10th and 11th at the St. Aloysius College in the City.
Informing this to media persons here, College Principal Prof. Praveen Martis said “the seminar will be held in association with the National Association for Application of Radioisotope and Radiation at the LF Raskeena Hall in the College.
“District in-charge Minister UT Khader will inaugurate the program at 9 o’clock on September 10. Dr.Bharadwaj, Chairman of the Central Government's Atomic Energy Regulatory Board, and Principal of Miranda Women's College of Delhi University and member of the Union Cabinet Advisory Council Dr. Pratibha Jolly will be the guests. St. Aloysius Group Institutions head. Dr. Dionysius Vas will preside over the function,” he informed.
“As a part of the programme, a public lecture on the topic ‘Public Perceptions- Myth and reality about Nuclear Power will be organized at 5 pm on September 11. SK Malhotra, the former head of the Government of India's Public Awareness Department, will be delivering the lecture and the public will have the open entry for this,” Praveen Martis said.
Prof. Prakash Kamath, Rita Krista, Program Organizer Dr. Chandrashekhar Shetty 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.
