Decriminalizing Adultery: What is missing? After perusal of 243-page judgement of the Honorable apex court in Joseph Shine vs. Union of India (2018) which decriminalises the adultery law in India i.e. Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code(hereinafter referred as IPC ) 1860 and Section 198(2) of Crpc , 1973, I thought another alternative could have been given along with striking down section 497 of IPC . Section 497 of IPC is reproduced here as follows: "Whoever has sexual intercourse with a person who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of another man, without the consent or connivance of that man, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape, is guilty of the...
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