12 August 2024


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Should Women Also be Held Guilty of Adultery? SC to Examine Archaic Law - 12.12.2017

Section 497 makes adultery an offence only with respect to a man who has a relationship with somebody's wife. The wife is considered neither adulterous nor an abettor in law, while the man faces a jail term of up to five years.

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