India, May 24 -- A Delhi Court quoted by writer Graham Greene's novel 'The End of the Affair' while upholding a woman and her lover's right to privacy. The court made the remark while rejecting a request by a Major in the Indian Army who alleged that his wife was having an extramarital affair with another Army officer, also a Major and sought CCTV footage of a hotel where both of them were allegedly together,

While upholding the right to privacy of the Army officer's wife and his alleged lover, the court quoted the novel during the hearing and said that the burden of fidelity rests with the one who made the promise. "It is not the lover who has betrayed the marriage, but the one who made the vow and broke it. The outsider was never bound...