Thursday, 2 August 2018

SC: Punishing only men for adultery not right

Appearing for NGO Partners for Law in Development, senior advocate Meenakshi Arora said that Section 497, which makes adultery a crime for men, must be struck down because it treats women as chattel of their husbands by providing that it is not adultery if a man has intercourse with a woman with the consent of her husband.

from The Times of India https://ift.tt/2v8lJwf

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