Recording wife's call Violation of privacy rights: High Court

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has clarified in one of its judgments that a husband cannot record his mobile call without his permission to create a negative impression on his wife. If the recording is made, it will be considered as a violation of the privacy rights of the wife and for which the husband may be punished according to the provisions of the law.

A woman had filed an application in the Punjab and Haryana High Court in which she claimed that there was an ongoing dispute between her and her husband. Following the controversy, the husband has also filed for divorce in the Family Court of Bathinda in 2017.

The husband, meanwhile, has included a phone conversation with me as evidence. The family court also accepted the call record when in fact it was not appropriate according to the rules. When the husband argued in court that I had to prove that my wife was cruel and the call recording was proof of that.

However, the High Court rejected the husband's arguments, saying that it was inappropriate to record his call to tarnish his wife's image and that it violated the wife's right to privacy. The court later ordered the family court not to include call recordings as evidence in the entire case.