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INDIAN LAW ON ADULTERY
Judgements on decriminalising adultery, same-sex consensual relationship 'not a good law': Centre in SCThe Centre has informed the Supreme Court that landmark judgments on adultery and same-sex relationships were based on subjective 'constitu...- Parliamentary Standing Committee adopts reports on new crime lawsThe Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs has adopted the draft report on new crime laws with several changes, including gender-...
- SC notice on Centre's plea seeking verdict decriminalizing adultery be not made applicable on forcesIt has been said when jawans and officers are posted in forward inhospitable areas, their families are taken care of at base camp by other ...
- Homosexuality and adultery unacceptable in Army: Bipin RawatA person charged under Section 46 of the Army Act is guilty of disgraceful conduct of a “cruel, indecent or unnatural kind”.
- Will not allow gay sex, adultery in Army: General Rawat"The Army is conservative. The Army is a family. We cannot allow this to perpetrate into the Army," he said on adultery, adding soldiers an...
- One bad law goes, but women remain second-class citizensAs Justice Chandrachud elaborates in his judgment, this has been a ubiquitous attitude towards adultery throughout history.
- Recent verdicts make SC supreme champion of individualsIn a string of recent verdicts, the SC has advanced individual liberty, dignity as well as gender equality.
- Supreme Court strikes down Victorian-era adultery lawIf adultery is treated as a crime, there would be immense intrusion into the extreme privacy of the matrimonial sphere and it is better lef...
- Adultery no longer a crime, says Supreme CourtThe Centre had defended the Victorian law, stating that continuation of the adultery law is important.
- Supreme Court's adultery verdict strong, progressive on gender equality, say women lawyersSenior advocate Rebecca John and lawyers Aishwarya Bhati and Menaka Guruswamy, termed as correct the apex court's observation that the adul...
- SC verdict on adultery welcomed by lawyers, activistsA five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra was unanimous in striking down Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code dea...
- Supreme Court to pronounce verdict on plea challenging adultery law on ThursdayThe Centre had favoured retention of penal law on adultery, saying that it is a public wrong which causes mental and physical injury to the...
- SC disagrees with government that adultery law is needed to save marriagesThe bench also questioned the law on various counts including that an extra-marital affair becomes non-punishable if the woman's husband st...
- Supreme Court says IPC provision on adultery violates Right to Equality"Definitely the matrimonial sanctity aspect is there, but the way the provisions are enacted or made run counter to Article 14 (Right to Eq...
- ET View: Consent is king, adultery can be ground for divorce, not a crime by itselfAdulterous men, according to current law can be punished under Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code.
- Adultery: Why government should stay out of our affairsThe problem is that our law involves the state, and the full weight of patriarchal morality, in the affair.
- Anti-adultery laws must to protect marriage: Government to Supreme CourtThe government was responding to a court notice on a public interest litigation which wanted the law struck down as it was not gender neutr...
- Plea against penal law on adultery referred to Constitution benchThe case pertained to a PIL filed by Joseph Shine, an Indian who is living in Italy. Petitioner contests existing norms on the grounds that...
- SC to study validity of adultery laws that punish only menIf SC decides to make adultery laws gender-neutral, it could affect provisions on bigamy, dowry and rape in the IPC and Domestic Violence A...
- Is it time for India to scrape the patriarchal adultery law?The law is applicable only when the wife commits adultery.
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