Chandigarh: The Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that recording a wife’s phone conversation without her knowledge is a violation of privacy. The High Court is looking into the petition filed by the woman challenging the Bathinda Family Court order of 2020. Justice Lisa Gill issued the order.
In 2020, the Bathinda Family Court allowed the husband to prove his arguments on a CD of recorded phone conversations between the complainant and her husband. The family court allowed the husband to submit a supplementary affidavit along with a CD and transcripts of the conversations recorded on a memory card or chip on his mobile phone. Following this, the woman approached the High Court questioning the family court order.
The authenticity of such conversations cannot be guaranteed. The petition, which was first filed in the court, does not mention any such conversations. The wife’s lawyer argued in court that this was a telephone conversation years before the divorce petition was filed and that it could not be accepted as evidence because it was recorded without the petitioner’s consent.
At the same time, the lawyer who appeared for the husband argued that it was evidence to prove that the wife had been abusive. However, the High Court quashed the family court order, saying that recording the telephone conversation with the wife without her knowledge was a clear violation of privacy.
The husband approached the court in 2017 seeking a divorce. The couple got married in 2009. The couple has a daughter.
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