In the last few years, the traditional definition of “marriage” has been at the centre of public debate. This churn in society signals that there is a need to evolve. Marriage has generally been understood as the legal union of a man and a woman. But recent and contemporary liberal interpretations of marriage and gender roles encompass marital relations between same-sex people.

Ram Charan who is going high and mighty on his film RRR‘s Oscar success and recently embraced fatherhood with wife Upasana Kamineni Konidela recalled his wife’s reaction to gifting her something expensive in the early days of their 10-year-old marriage.

“Forget what to gift girls. I don’t know what to gift my wife. I got a slap on the face early in the marriage. I got her a very expensive gift. I thought she was going to be floored. But she rejected it. Not even five seconds she took. It took me five hours to go outside and to go to another store. It was a very unique store,” recounted Ram Charan in a conversation with Youtuber and comedian Tanmay Bhat for online shopping site Meesho.

The Dharwad bench of the Karnataka High Court recently ruled that the right to privacy under the Aadhaar Act cannot be waived by marriage.

The order was passed on November 10 by a division bench of Justices Sunil Dutt Yadav and Vijaykumar Patil.

 The officials argued, as per Section 33 of the Aadhaar Act, that there was a right to privacy for UIDAI holders and a court could not issue such an order without hearing the other person as well.

The counsel for the woman argued the details could be shared as the identities of both were merged after marriage and that the enforcement of the maintenance order could only be done by proceeding against the husband as he was absconding.

The bench observed, “The right to privacy of the Aadhaar number holder preserves the autonomy of the individual’s right to privacy which is conferred primacy and admits of no exception under the statutory scheme”.

“The relationship by marriage, which is a union of two partners, does not eclipse the right to privacy which is the right of an individual and the autonomy of such individual’s right stands recognized and protected by the procedure of hearing contemplated under Section 33. The marriage by itself does not do away with the procedural right of hearing conferred under Section 33 of the Aadhaar Act,” added the bench.