New Delhi: The upcoming Yami Gautam Dhar and Emraan Hashmi-starrer Haq , slated for release Friday, has reignited the debate on a complex and still-developing legal issue: whether the dead have the right to privacy, and if such a right can be violated after death.

The matter is now being litigated before the Madhya Pradesh High Court, even as various courts have held in previous cases that there exists no right to privacy or personality after the death of an individual.

Haq is said to be inspired by the landmark 1985 case of Shah Bano, a divorced Muslim woman who had won a legal battle for maintenance in the Supreme Court. Show Full Article

Siddiqua Begum Khan, daughter of the late Shah Bano, has approached the HC claiming that the movie violates her mother’s right to privacy and d

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