Parda

Adultery is not a crime in India. The Supreme Court struck down Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code in Joseph Shine v. Union of India (2018), so no adult can be prosecuted for it. It can still be cited as a ground for divorce under personal law, and it remains a serious matter inside a marriage. We are a platform for consenting adults, not legal advice — our full explainer goes through what the judgment did and did not change.

Discretion is the product. Your real name is never shown, photos stay masked until you hand someone a private key, billing appears under a neutral descriptor, there is a quick-exit button on every screen, and pressing Escape twice blurs the whole app. You can also delete your account and every message in it from Parda → Privacy at any time.

No. Every photo you upload gets a masked copy generated on the server — the pixels are genuinely destroyed, it is not a filter someone can strip off. Only the people you give a private key to see the clear version, and you can take that key back.

Adults over 18 who are married, separated or in a committed relationship and are looking for something outside it, plus single adults who are comfortable with that. Every listed profile has had a government photo ID and a live camera selfie checked by a person.

Every listed profile is a real, ID-checked person. We also run clearly labelled AI conversation partners — they carry an "AI" badge everywhere they appear, they are never counted as members, and you can never be charged for revealing a contact that does not exist. Ashley Madison paid a $1.6 million FTC settlement in 2016 for blurring that line. We do not.

Nothing. There are no plans, no credits to buy and no card on file — we do not take money from members at all. Everyone gets a small allowance of points each day so that one person cannot message everybody; a like costs a couple of points, and a conversation becomes free the moment the other person replies.

Only from a match. Both sides browse each other, and nobody is told you liked them unless they like you back. When two people like each other a chat opens for both. Nobody can message you before that, which is the entire access-control model.

No, and this is deliberate. Phone numbers, emails and social handles are stripped out of every message, and there is no reveal button anywhere in the app. A number is the one thing you cannot take back, so the platform simply does not carry them. Everything stays in the chat.

Government photo ID plus a live selfie, both checked by a person, before a profile can be listed. Contact details are stripped out of messages automatically. Screenshots of a chat are the one thing we cannot prevent, which is why photos stay masked and your real name is never on the platform. Report anyone from the profile or the chat and a human reads it.

They cannot. A conversation only exists where two people have both liked each other, and you can end a match at any time — the chat closes, though it is kept so either of you can still report what was said.

A court order can compel us to produce data, the same as any Indian intermediary under the IT Rules, 2021. That is exactly why we keep as little as possible: no real name, minimal logs, and message history you can permanently delete yourself. Read the privacy policy before you decide.

Anywhere in India. You can join from any Indian city, and we have written local pages for 71 of them, including Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kolkata, plus a page for every state we cover. New cities are added as members join.

Yes, in one click, and it is real deletion rather than a hidden flag. Your profile, photos, masked copies, messages and verification documents go. Payment records are kept only as long as Indian tax law requires, with your name removed.