New Delhi, July 14 -- In a significant judgement, the Supreme Court has set aside the Punjab & Haryana High Court's order that said wife's secretly recorded phone conversation amounts to a "clear breach" of her right of privacy and cannot be admitted as evidence in a family court, reported Live Law.

According to Section 122 of the Indian Evidence Act, disclosure of marital communications without consent is barred, except in legal proceedings between the spouses or where one is prosecuted for a crime against the other.

The spousal privilege under the first part of the section cannot be absolute and must be read in light of the exception provided in the same provision, said the apex court.

"Exception under Section 122 has to be construed...