The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine the constitutional validity of a 157-year-old “gender discriminatory’ provision in the IPC which punishes a married man for adultery for having consensual sexual relations with another man’s wife but spares women in extra-marital relationships.
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine the constitutional validity of a 157-year-old “gender discriminatory’ provision in the IPC which punishes a married man for adultery for having consensual sexual relations with another man’s wife but spares women in extra-marital relationships.