Adultery Verdict

Former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, who headed the benches that delivered a series of judgements on important issues including the criminalisation of politics, adultery, homosexuality, lynching and Sabarimala temple, said on Friday that an individual cannot be bereft of the idea of constitutional morality.

In a burst of progressive activism, India's Supreme Court in September delivered a slew of judgments that overturned colonial era laws and questioned government overreach. In the past month, the country's top court legalized homosexuality, decriminalized adultery and clipped the scope of a government biometric program, bowing to demands from privac...

On a day the Supreme Court declared adultery is no longer a crime in India and said women cannot be treated as "chattel", union minister Uma Bharti claimed equal rights is a western concept and that in India women have been considered superior to men.

Delhi Women Panel Chief Swati Maliwal was brutally trolled on Twitter today for calling Supreme Court's verdict scrapping the adultery law as "anti-women". The top court today said adultery is no longer a crime, junking a 158-year law that punished a man for an affair but not the woman, treating her as her husband's "property".

As the century-old adultery law was scrapped by five most senior Supreme Court judges today, it became the second instance of Chandrachud vs Chandrachud or father vs son. Justice DY Chandrachud was among the five judges who called Section 497, the law that punishes men and not women for adultery, unconstitutional and scrapped it.

The Supreme Court verdict declaring that adultery is not a crime has been widely welcomed by several lawyers and activists who said it was antiquated colonial era law that treated women as properties of their husbands.

In an unanimous verdict, the Supreme Court has struck down the 158- year-old section 497 of the Indian Penal Code, which says adultery is a crime. It can however, be grounds for divorce "without a shadow of doubt", said the top court.

Adultery is no longer a crime in India though "without a shadow of doubt" can be grounds for divorce, the Supreme Court said today, junking a 158-year law that punished a man for an affair but not the woman, treating her as her husband's property.

The Supreme Court delivered an unanimous verdict with all the five judges concurring  on a crucial 150-year-old adultery law that considers punishment only to a man and not a married woman for an affair by treating her as a victim and not as an abettor of the offence.

The Supreme Court is reading out its verdict on the over 150-year-old adultery law that punishes only a man and not a married woman for an affair by treating her as a victim and not as an abettor of the offence. The centre had defended the Victorian law saying adultery must remain a crime so that the sanctity of marriage can be protected, after a p...

The Supreme Court yesterday reserved the verdict on Section 497 (Adultery) of the Indian Penal Code while observing that infidelity is the cause of breaking up of loyal marriages.

Whether women can be punished for adultery in India will be decided by a five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court. A 19th century criminal law provides for punishing only men, and not women, for adultery. Keeping in mind social progression, gender equity and sensitivity, earlier verdicts on this issue have to be revisited, the top court s...

Iran's top human rights official says the death by stoning sentence for a 43-year-old woman convicted of adultery is under review.The sentence to stone Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani to death drew worldwide outcry after it was publicized by her lawyer, who had warned, she was facing imminent execution.British media reported late Thursday that the stoni...

Former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, who headed the benches that delivered a series of judgements on important issues including the criminalisation of politics, adultery, homosexuality, lynching and Sabarimala temple, said on Friday that an individual cannot be bereft of the idea of constitutional morality.

In a burst of progressive activism, India's Supreme Court in September delivered a slew of judgments that overturned colonial era laws and questioned government overreach. In the past month, the country's top court legalized homosexuality, decriminalized adultery and clipped the scope of a government biometric program, bowing to demands from privac...

On a day the Supreme Court declared adultery is no longer a crime in India and said women cannot be treated as "chattel", union minister Uma Bharti claimed equal rights is a western concept and that in India women have been considered superior to men.

Delhi Women Panel Chief Swati Maliwal was brutally trolled on Twitter today for calling Supreme Court's verdict scrapping the adultery law as "anti-women". The top court today said adultery is no longer a crime, junking a 158-year law that punished a man for an affair but not the woman, treating her as her husband's "property".

As the century-old adultery law was scrapped by five most senior Supreme Court judges today, it became the second instance of Chandrachud vs Chandrachud or father vs son. Justice DY Chandrachud was among the five judges who called Section 497, the law that punishes men and not women for adultery, unconstitutional and scrapped it.

The Supreme Court verdict declaring that adultery is not a crime has been widely welcomed by several lawyers and activists who said it was antiquated colonial era law that treated women as properties of their husbands.

In an unanimous verdict, the Supreme Court has struck down the 158- year-old section 497 of the Indian Penal Code, which says adultery is a crime. It can however, be grounds for divorce "without a shadow of doubt", said the top court.

Adultery is no longer a crime in India though "without a shadow of doubt" can be grounds for divorce, the Supreme Court said today, junking a 158-year law that punished a man for an affair but not the woman, treating her as her husband's property.

The Supreme Court delivered an unanimous verdict with all the five judges concurring  on a crucial 150-year-old adultery law that considers punishment only to a man and not a married woman for an affair by treating her as a victim and not as an abettor of the offence.

The Supreme Court is reading out its verdict on the over 150-year-old adultery law that punishes only a man and not a married woman for an affair by treating her as a victim and not as an abettor of the offence. The centre had defended the Victorian law saying adultery must remain a crime so that the sanctity of marriage can be protected, after a p...

The Supreme Court yesterday reserved the verdict on Section 497 (Adultery) of the Indian Penal Code while observing that infidelity is the cause of breaking up of loyal marriages.

Whether women can be punished for adultery in India will be decided by a five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court. A 19th century criminal law provides for punishing only men, and not women, for adultery. Keeping in mind social progression, gender equity and sensitivity, earlier verdicts on this issue have to be revisited, the top court s...

Iran's top human rights official says the death by stoning sentence for a 43-year-old woman convicted of adultery is under review.The sentence to stone Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani to death drew worldwide outcry after it was publicized by her lawyer, who had warned, she was facing imminent execution.British media reported late Thursday that the stoni...