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Sunday, February 22, 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

Nick Jonas wearing a mangalsutra is validation for many Indians. He’s our favourite jiju

Nick Jonas is not trying to modernise the mangalsutra, but his gesture shows that choices can be equal. If commitment must be flaunted, it need not be gendered.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.