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Mandharam Side Hero Username: Mandharam Post Number: 4421 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 157.49.8.126 Rating: N/A |
In 1988, a two-judge Bench, in V. Revathi versus Union of India, denied gender discrimination in the fact that only the adulterer-man is punished and not the wife who consensually entered into the adulterous relationship. | ||
Mandharam Side Hero Username: Mandharam Post Number: 4420 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 157.49.8.126 Rating: N/A |
Secondly, the provision does not confer any right on the wife to prosecute her husband for adultery. The law also does not take into account cases where the husband has sexual relations with an unmarried woman. | ||
Mandharam Side Hero Username: Mandharam Post Number: 4419 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 157.49.8.126 Rating: N/A |
She argued that while Section 497 gave husbands the exclusive right as an aggrieved party to prosecute the adulterer in a case involving his wife, a similar right has not been conferred on a wife to prosecute the woman with whom her husband has committed adultery. | ||
Mandharam Side Hero Username: Mandharam Post Number: 4418 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 157.49.8.126 Rating: N/A |
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/scs-re-visit-of-adulte ry-law-signals-a-paradigm-shift-in-the-courts-sensibility/ar ticle21332156.ece | ||
Mandharam Side Hero Username: Mandharam Post Number: 4417 Registered: 02-2008 Posted From: 157.49.8.126 Rating: N/A |
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/why-punish-married -men-alone-for-adultery-asks-sc/articleshow/61991372.cms Married husband is covered The woman having affair with that married husband to be covered Also man who gets in affair with married woman needs to be covered |