The Supreme Court ruled last week that secretly recorded conversations between spouses are admissible evidence in matrimonial disputes. The Court set aside a 2021 Punjab and Haryana High Court judgment that barred a husband, who sought a divorce, from using secretly recorded phone conversations with his wife as evidence in court. This was a crucial question for the apex court to settle, since several high courts had given different rulings on the issue. The Indian Evidence Act, 1872, codifies spousal privilege — a common law principle that a person cannot be compelled to testify against their spouse in a criminal case. While this provision carves out an exception........

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