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Thursday, August 2, 2018

SC terms adultery law as arbitrary, violative of right to equality

The Supreme Court on Thursday termed as "manifestly arbitrary" a penal provision which required a woman to have her husband's consent to indulge in adultery with another married man and said it amounted to treating women as "chattel".

from Times of India https://ift.tt/2n3yq6X

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