And it's a wrap. DY Chandrachud retired as the Chief Justice of India on November 10. He delivered his final order from the Supreme Court's...

The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Home Affairs has adopted the draft report on new crime laws with several changes, including gender-...

Justice Chandra Dhari Singh, who was dealing with a challenge to a trial court directing the husband to pay monthly maintenance to the wife...

"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...

As Justice Chandrachud elaborates in his judgment, this has been a ubiquitous attitude towards adultery throughout history.

If adultery is treated as a crime, there would be immense intrusion into the extreme privacy of the matrimonial sphere and it is better lef...

The Centre had defended the Victorian law, stating that continuation of the adultery law is important.

Senior advocate Rebecca John and lawyers Aishwarya Bhati and Menaka Guruswamy, termed as correct the apex court's observation that the adul...

A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra was unanimous in striking down Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code dea...

The Centre had favoured retention of penal law on adultery, saying that it is a public wrong which causes mental and physical injury to the...

The bench also questioned the law on various counts including that an extra-marital affair becomes non-punishable if the woman's husband st...

"What is the sanctity of marriage here. If the consent of husband is taken then there is no adultery," the bench said.

“The law seems to be prowomen but is anti-women in a grave ostensible way. As if with the consent of the husband, wife can be subjected to ...

A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra said it will not touch the law to make it an offence for women too.

The government was responding to a court notice on a public interest litigation which wanted the law struck down as it was not gender neutr...

If SC decides to make adultery laws gender-neutral, it could affect provisions on bigamy, dowry and rape in the IPC and Domestic Violence A...

The law is applicable only when the wife commits adultery.