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Adultery Law Is Arbitrary, Says Chief Justice Of India Dipak Misra
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...
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Can A Woman Be Punished For Adultery? Supreme Court to Examine
Women can't be prosecuted for adultery in India but this could change. The Supreme Court today agreed to revisit the 19th century criminal law that provides for punishing only men, and not women, for adultery.
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Iran will not stone 'adulterous' woman. For now
Iran's judiciary says the controversial stoning sentence for a woman convicted of adultery will not be implemented for now.Malek Ajdar Sharifi, the top judicial official in the province where the woman was convicted has told the state news agency the sentence "will not be implemented for the time being."He added in Sunday's report that the death se...
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Adultery Law Is Arbitrary, Says Chief Justice Of India Dipak Misra
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...
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Can A Woman Be Punished For Adultery? Supreme Court to Examine
Women can't be prosecuted for adultery in India but this could change. The Supreme Court today agreed to revisit the 19th century criminal law that provides for punishing only men, and not women, for adultery.
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Iran will not stone 'adulterous' woman. For now
Iran's judiciary says the controversial stoning sentence for a woman convicted of adultery will not be implemented for now.Malek Ajdar Sharifi, the top judicial official in the province where the woman was convicted has told the state news agency the sentence "will not be implemented for the time being."He added in Sunday's report that the death se...
