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The law dated from 1860. Under Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code , which was the section dealing with adultery , a man who had consensual sexual intercourse with the wife of another man without that husband's consent or connivance could have been punished for this offence with up to five years imprisonment, a fine or both.
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 February 2025. Type of extramarital sex This article is about the act of adultery or extramarital sex. For other uses, see Adultery (disambiguation). For a broad overview, see Religion and sexuality. Illustration depicting an adulterous wife, circa 1800 Sex and the law Social issues Consent ...
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Adultery laws are the laws in various countries that deal with extramarital sex.Historically, many cultures considered adultery a very serious crime, some subject to severe punishment, especially in the case of extramarital sex involving a married woman and a man other than her husband, with penalties including capital punishment, mutilation, or torture. [1]
The draft of the Indian Penal Code was prepared by the First Law Commission, chaired by Thomas Babington Macaulay in 1834 and was submitted to Governor-General of India Council in 1835. Based on a simplified codification of the law of England at the time, elements were also derived from the Napoleonic Code and Edward Livingston 's Louisiana ...
A 2003 Supreme Court decision that struck down sodomy laws cast doubt on whether adultery laws could pass muster, with then-Justice Antonin Scalia writing in his dissent that the court’s ruling ...
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