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"In Era Of Deepfakes...": Court Rejects Husband's Claim Of Adultery Based On Photos
- Tuesday June 11, 2024
- India News | Indo-Asian News Service
The Delhi High Court has dismissed a man's attempt to avoid paying maintenance to his estranged wife by alleging she was living in adultery, based on photographs he presented as evidence.
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"Law Can't Be Powerless To Stop Clandestine Unions": Court On Adultery
- Friday January 5, 2024
- India News | Press Trust of India
The absence of a law making adultery an offence cannot provide "blanket immunity" to spouses in extramarital relationship and leave the victim individuals without a remedy, the Delhi High Court has said.
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Man's Claim To Right To Privacy Over Adultery Rejected In Divorce Case
- Thursday May 11, 2023
- Delhi News | Press Trust of India
It will not be in public interest for the court to come to the aid of a married man, who indulged in alleged sexual relationships outside the wedlock, on the premise of right to privacy, the Delhi High Court said on Wednesday.
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Adultery Laws Still Applicable In Armed Forces, Clarifies Supreme Court
- Tuesday January 31, 2023
- India News | Press Trust of India
Observing that military discipline will be affected if there is an army with "completely loose morals", the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the armed forces can take action against their officers for adulterous acts.
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Armed Forces Must Have Disciplinary Mechanism To Curb Adultry: Supreme Court
- Thursday September 29, 2022
- India News | Press Trust of India
Supreme Court on Thursday said that armed forces must have some kind of mechanism for disciplinary proceedings against army officers for adultery as "this is a conduct that can shake up the life of officers."
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'Keep Adultery A Crime In Armed Forces': Top Court To Study Centre's Plea
- Wednesday January 13, 2021
- India News | Reported by A Vaidyanathan, Edited by Harish Pullanoor
The Supreme Court today agreed to examine the Central government's request to keep adultery a crime in the armed forces. A bench of the top court today requested the Chief Justice of India to set up a five-judge constitution bench to issue clarification on the Centre's plea.
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Army Wants Homosexuality, Adultery To Remain Punishable Offences: Report
- Friday November 1, 2019
- India News | Press Trust of India
The Army wants homosexuality and adultery to remain as punishable offences to ensure discipline and has made a representation to the Defence Ministry, a year after the Supreme Court decriminalised these acts, sources said on Thursday.
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Won't Allow Gay Sex In The Army, Says Chief General Rawat
- Thursday January 10, 2019
- India News | Reported by Vishnu Som, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh
Gay sex will not be allowed in the Indian Army, its chief General Bipin Rawat said on Thursday when asked to comment on the Supreme Court decriminalizing homosexuality.
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"Why Target Triple Talaq But Support Homosexuality?": Asaduddin Owaisi To Centre
- Friday December 28, 2018
- India News | Edited by Jimmy Jacob
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi today questioned the logic behind the government curbing the practice of Triple Talaq while supporting the "decriminalisation" of homosexuality. He termed it as an attack on the rights conferred upon Muslims by the constitution.
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Adultery Can Be Result, May Not Be Cause Of Unhappy Marriage: Top Court
- Friday September 28, 2018
- India News | ANI
The Supreme Court, while striking down the law on adultery on Thursday, said that treating it as an offence would tantamount to punishing people who are unhappy in marital relationships.
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What Equality? Women Superior To Men, Uma Bharti Says On Adultery Ruling
- Friday September 28, 2018
- India News | Edited by Abhimanyu Bose
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.
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Cop Locked In Bedroom By Angry Husband In Rare Case Of Jail For Adultery
- Thursday September 27, 2018
- India News | Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy
Adultery is no longer a crime, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, declaring a colonial-era law that punished the offence with jail time unconstitutional and discriminatory against women. The more than century-old adultery law prescribed that any man who slept with a married woman without her husband's permission had committed adultery, a crime ca...
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Delhi Women Panel Chief Trolled For Calling Adultery Verdict "Anti-Women"
- Saturday September 29, 2018
- India News | Edited by Richa Taneja
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".
- www.ndtv.com
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Activists Welcome Supreme Court's Verdict On Adultery Law
- Thursday September 27, 2018
- India News | Press Trust of India
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.
- www.ndtv.com
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"Women Treated As Husband's Property": Top Court Strikes Down Adultery Law
- Thursday September 27, 2018
- India News | Edited by Revathi Hariharan
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.
- www.ndtv.com
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"In Era Of Deepfakes...": Court Rejects Husband's Claim Of Adultery Based On Photos
- Tuesday June 11, 2024
- India News | Indo-Asian News Service
The Delhi High Court has dismissed a man's attempt to avoid paying maintenance to his estranged wife by alleging she was living in adultery, based on photographs he presented as evidence.
- www.ndtv.com
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"Law Can't Be Powerless To Stop Clandestine Unions": Court On Adultery
- Friday January 5, 2024
- India News | Press Trust of India
The absence of a law making adultery an offence cannot provide "blanket immunity" to spouses in extramarital relationship and leave the victim individuals without a remedy, the Delhi High Court has said.
- www.ndtv.com
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Man's Claim To Right To Privacy Over Adultery Rejected In Divorce Case
- Thursday May 11, 2023
- Delhi News | Press Trust of India
It will not be in public interest for the court to come to the aid of a married man, who indulged in alleged sexual relationships outside the wedlock, on the premise of right to privacy, the Delhi High Court said on Wednesday.
- www.ndtv.com
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Adultery Laws Still Applicable In Armed Forces, Clarifies Supreme Court
- Tuesday January 31, 2023
- India News | Press Trust of India
Observing that military discipline will be affected if there is an army with "completely loose morals", the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the armed forces can take action against their officers for adulterous acts.
- www.ndtv.com
-
Armed Forces Must Have Disciplinary Mechanism To Curb Adultry: Supreme Court
- Thursday September 29, 2022
- India News | Press Trust of India
Supreme Court on Thursday said that armed forces must have some kind of mechanism for disciplinary proceedings against army officers for adultery as "this is a conduct that can shake up the life of officers."
- www.ndtv.com
-
'Keep Adultery A Crime In Armed Forces': Top Court To Study Centre's Plea
- Wednesday January 13, 2021
- India News | Reported by A Vaidyanathan, Edited by Harish Pullanoor
The Supreme Court today agreed to examine the Central government's request to keep adultery a crime in the armed forces. A bench of the top court today requested the Chief Justice of India to set up a five-judge constitution bench to issue clarification on the Centre's plea.
- www.ndtv.com
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Army Wants Homosexuality, Adultery To Remain Punishable Offences: Report
- Friday November 1, 2019
- India News | Press Trust of India
The Army wants homosexuality and adultery to remain as punishable offences to ensure discipline and has made a representation to the Defence Ministry, a year after the Supreme Court decriminalised these acts, sources said on Thursday.
- www.ndtv.com
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Won't Allow Gay Sex In The Army, Says Chief General Rawat
- Thursday January 10, 2019
- India News | Reported by Vishnu Som, Edited by Deepshikha Ghosh
Gay sex will not be allowed in the Indian Army, its chief General Bipin Rawat said on Thursday when asked to comment on the Supreme Court decriminalizing homosexuality.
- www.ndtv.com
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"Why Target Triple Talaq But Support Homosexuality?": Asaduddin Owaisi To Centre
- Friday December 28, 2018
- India News | Edited by Jimmy Jacob
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi today questioned the logic behind the government curbing the practice of Triple Talaq while supporting the "decriminalisation" of homosexuality. He termed it as an attack on the rights conferred upon Muslims by the constitution.
- www.ndtv.com
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Adultery Can Be Result, May Not Be Cause Of Unhappy Marriage: Top Court
- Friday September 28, 2018
- India News | ANI
The Supreme Court, while striking down the law on adultery on Thursday, said that treating it as an offence would tantamount to punishing people who are unhappy in marital relationships.
- www.ndtv.com
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What Equality? Women Superior To Men, Uma Bharti Says On Adultery Ruling
- Friday September 28, 2018
- India News | Edited by Abhimanyu Bose
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.
- www.ndtv.com
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Cop Locked In Bedroom By Angry Husband In Rare Case Of Jail For Adultery
- Thursday September 27, 2018
- India News | Edited by Divyanshu Dutta Roy
Adultery is no longer a crime, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, declaring a colonial-era law that punished the offence with jail time unconstitutional and discriminatory against women. The more than century-old adultery law prescribed that any man who slept with a married woman without her husband's permission had committed adultery, a crime ca...
- www.ndtv.com
-
Delhi Women Panel Chief Trolled For Calling Adultery Verdict "Anti-Women"
- Saturday September 29, 2018
- India News | Edited by Richa Taneja
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".
- www.ndtv.com
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Activists Welcome Supreme Court's Verdict On Adultery Law
- Thursday September 27, 2018
- India News | Press Trust of India
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.
- www.ndtv.com
-
"Women Treated As Husband's Property": Top Court Strikes Down Adultery Law
- Thursday September 27, 2018
- India News | Edited by Revathi Hariharan
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.
- www.ndtv.com