Women living under the shadow of husbands has gone: SC strikes down adultery law Section 497 IPC
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 27-09-2018
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Section 497 reads as follows: “Adultery.-Whoever has sexual intercourse with a person who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of another man, without the consent or connivance of that man, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offense of rape, is guilty of the offense of adultery, and shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, or with fine, or with both. In such case the wife shall not be punishable as an abettor.