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Friday, January 30, 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

India’s ‘mother of all deals’ with Europe comes with a troublesome cousin—Turkey

Established in 1968, the EU Customs Union is a foundational pillar of European economic integration. With Turkey in the mix, India’s biggest deal with the EU suddenly looks more complicated.

More states giving out cash transfers. They aren’t substitutes for investments: Economic Survey

Number of states implementing unconditional cash transfers increased fivefold between FY23 and FY26, half of them estimated to be in revenue deficit, report says.

‘LCA man’ Ravi Kota, key in operationalisation of IAF’s Tejas fleet, picked as next HAL CMD

Mechanical engineer & alumnus of IIM-A & IAS France, Kota was General Manager in HAL’s Light Combat Aircraft division. He was selected from a pool of eight candidates.

Non-alignment is coming back in a new avatar: Trump-peedit alliance

No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.