The Supreme Court on Monday (July 14) set aside the Punjab & Haryana High Court’s judgment that held that recording a wife’s telephonic conversation without her knowledge amounts to a “clear breach” of her fundamental right of privacy and cannot be admitted in evidence before a Family Court.

A bench of Justice BV Nagarathna and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma thus held that a secretly recorded telephonic conversation of the spouse is admissible as evidence in matrimonial proceedings