By Syed Arsalan Abid

THE latest to join the city’s long list of emotional dramas is Shelly Mahajan v. Ms. Bhanushree Bahl & Anr. — where a wife has sued her husband’s “special friend” for ₹4 crores, accusing her of alienation of affection. No one’s been found guilty, and no final verdict has been passed — the Delhi High Court merely pressed the doorbell: “Ding-dong, summons.”

It’s a plotline that would make even Indian TV serials blush — a 2012 marriage, twin children, a business venture, a new colleague in 2021, and by 2023, a digital discovery that turned love into litigation.

This isn’t about criminal adultery. That chapter ended in Joseph Shine v. Union of India (2018), when the Supreme Court struck down Section 497 IPC and politely asked the State to stay out of people’s bedrooms. But Delhi has now added a footnote........

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