Shiradi Ghat opened for light vehicles: D.K district commissioner
Mangaluru, Sep.5: Dakshina Kannada district commissioner Sasikanth Senthil in a statement said that Shiradi ghat has been opened for light vehicles.
The vehicular movement was banned in Shiradi ghat after recent landslides in the region. The affected areas have been repaired and national highway department has given the consent for the movement of light vehicles. Accordingly DC has instructed the national highway executive engineers, national highway authority project director and Puttur sub divisional officer to inspect the region and submit a report.
After going through this report DC has opened some roads in Shiradi Ghat for oneway movement of car, jeeps, two wheelers and other light vehicles.
The ban on lorries, tankers, containers and other heavy vehicles will continue as condition of Shiradi ghat road is still very critical and officers are working hard to bring it to normalcy, the statement said.
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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.
