The Supreme Court rejected the Centre’s plea to make Section
497 of IPC, which punishes only a married man for adultery while absolving the
woman, gender neutral to punish both men and women if they strayed from
marriage. The Court has reserved its verdict on pleas challenging
constitutional validity of adultery law after Additional Solicitor General
Pinky Anand, appearing for the Centre, concluded her arguments. The Bench said
that adultery does not even qualify as a criminal offence, and is at the most,
a civil wrong, and said that adultery has a civil remedy – divorce.
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