The Supreme Court has ruled that secretly recorded phone conversations between spouses can be used as evidence in matrimonial disputes. The judgment in Vibhor Garg v. Neha (2025 INSC 829) , delivered on July 14, 2025 , has finally settled years of confusion among Indian courts. Vibhor Garg and Neha married in 2009 but their relationship fell apart. When Vibhor filed for divorce in 2017, he had secret phone recordings of conversations with his wife from 2010 and 2016. When he tried to use these as evidence, Neha objected, saying it violated her right to privacy. The Punjab & Haryana High Court agreed with her and blocked the recordings. The Supreme Court, led by Justice B.V. Nagarathna and Justice Satish Chandra Sharma , disagreed completely. They ruled that privacy is not absolute and must be balanced against the right to a fair trial. The judgment shows how confused courts were before this decision: Courts That Allowed Re...
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