CAV Order

For convenience, the parties in this Writ Petition shall be referred to as the petitioner/wife and the respondent/husband.

2. Challenge in this petition is to the order dated 12.12.2024 passed by the First Additional Principal Judge, Family Court, Raipur, District Raipur, CG (hereinafter referred to as ‘Family Court’) in Case No. 718/2023 by which the application filed by respondent/husband herein under Order VII Rule 14 CPC has been allowed.

3. Facts of the case in short: The respondent/husband filed an application seeking a decree of divorce against the petitioner/wife under Section 13(1)(ia)(ib) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (hereinafter referred to as the “Act of 1955”). During the pendency of the said divorce application, the respondent/husband filed another application under Order VII Rule 14 CPC for taking the mobile recording of the conversation and Whatsapp chat made between the petitioner/wife, her relatives and other persons on record. Application under Order VII Rule 14 CPC was duly replied to by the petitioner/wife raising an objection that the respondent/husband was a man of suspicious mindset and that the call recording and the Whatsapp chat sought to be bro