Supreme Court of India

Vibhor Garg v. Neha

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Reported as [2025] 7 S.C.R. 611
Bench B.V. Nagarathna and Satish Chandra Sharma JJ.
Decided 14 July 2025

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What the Court ordered

In view of the aforesaid discussion, we set aside the impugned order dated 12.11.2021 passed by the High Court in CR No.1616 of 2020 (O & M) and restore the order passed by the Family Court dated 29.01.2020 passed by the learned Principal Judge, Family Court, Bhatinda.

Judgment, page 44

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Issue arose whether the conversation between spouses secretly recorded by one of them could be permitted to be made admissible in evidence; whether in light of the Evidence Act and the Family Courts Act, 1984, a conversation between spouses can be permitted to be given in evidence in a proceeding for divorce; whether such a recorded evidence should be disallowed solely on the ground that it is violative of the privacy of one of the spouses; and as to the correctness of the order passed by the High Court, declining permission to the husband to corroborate his evidence

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