Tag: adultery

Source- ndtv.com Adultery is no longer a crime in India even though, “without a shadow of doubt”, it can be grounds for divorce, the Supreme Court said today, scrapping a 158-year law that punished a man for an affair but not the woman, treating her as property. “The husband is not the master of the wife,” said

Source – indianexpress.com A Supreme Court Constitution bench, which started hearing pleas challenging Section 497 of the IPC which makes adultery a punishable offence for men, on Wednesday wondered why it should be an offence at all. “There were already civil liabilities and consequences of adultery. But making it an offence only for men is actually