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Sunday, March 15, 2026
TopicExtramarital Affair

Topic: Extramarital Affair

Putting a price on love: How Delhi HC opened door for spouses to sue 3rd parties for ‘interfering in marriage’

HC has now issued summons based on largely untested tort of ‘alienation of affection’, allowing spouses to claim compensation from third parties for interfering with their marriage.

In pre-arrest bail to married man over ‘rape on pretext of marriage’, HC junks woman’s ‘ignorance’ claim

Delhi HC noted woman was unlikely to have been misled. There was long delay in FIR against accused & case appeared to be of extramarital consensual relations, it said.

Not a Netflix plot: Woman stuns UP panchayat with ‘15 days with husband, 15 days with lover’ proposal

The woman put forth her request at a panchayat meeting in Rampur district's Saidnagar village. She has allegedly eloped with her paramour nine times in the last one year.

Meerut woman told lover she was his ‘dead mother’. How superstition, Snapchat aided grisly murder

Meerut: It was 1 am on 4 March. Sahil, who believed his mother's soul possessed his lover, Muskan, allegedly helped stab her husband Saurabh to...

After assault on 2 cops having ‘affair’ in Agra, probe points to internal strife at station

Case pertains to assault whose video was widely shared on social media. An ACP led team is looking into angle of factionalism as probe suggests feud in Rakabganj police station.

TMC’s Tajemul part of Bengal’s ungovernable belt. Villagers cheer, fear his Taliban-like court

The flogging of a couple by TMC muscleman & Robin Hood figure Tajemul Islam has turned the spotlight on the systematic brutality of ‘insaaf sabhas’ in the lawless interiors of Bengal.

Indore man who jumped in front of train suspected wife had ‘affair’, wanted DNA test of children

Purported video of Rajesh Patel has gone viral on social media since his death by alleged suicide, in which he appears to blame his wife for his end. No abetment to suicide FIR registered yet.

During Covid-19 lockdown, everything is digital — even adultery

An extramarital dating app called Gleeden has recently seen a 70 per cent increase in their subscriptions during coronavirus lockdown.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.