Law & Society-wl-2278-No Privacy in a Marriage

The Supreme Court’s judgment in Vibhor Garg v Neha (2025) holding that a husband may produce non-consensually recorded phone calls as evidence in a matrimonial dispute seems to suggest that marriage puts an end to the right to privacy between spouses. The court’s broad, sweeping conclusions miss the nuance needed to address a complex legal question that called for balancing competing principles.