Armed with a set of such arguments, Varanasi-based Pratima Gond recently approached the Supreme Court. Gond, an assistant professor of Sociology at the Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Banaras Hindu University, in a Public Interest Litigation prayed before the court seeking instructions to cancel prefixes such as Mrs, Kumari, Miss, and Shrimati before the names of women in all public and private documents as well as from their class 10 and 12 educational mark sheets and certificates. In her petition, Gond argued that the use of such prefixes before the name of women in public and private institutions, circulars, certificates, notifications, letter application forms and all other official communication denoted the marital status of women and was therefore unconstitutional due to breach of the right to privacy, which was a fundamental right provided in Articles 14 and 21 of the Constitution of India.