{"id":28405,"date":"2018-10-24T12:15:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28405"},"modified":"2018-10-24T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T06:45:54","slug":"adultery-must-remain-a-punishable-offence-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/adultery-must-remain-a-punishable-offence-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Adultery must remain a punishable offence: Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/centre-objects-to-dropping-of-adultery-as-an-offence\/article24388419.ece\">Adultery must remain a punishable offence: Centre<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Recently, the Centre contended that adultery should remain a crime to protect the institution of marriage<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important Facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol start=\"2\">\n<li>The Centre has opposed a petition before the Supreme Court that challenges the constitutionality of Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code<\/li>\n<li>The petition challenges the validity of Section 198 (1) and (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which states that that only a husband can be an aggrieved party in adultery and only he can go to court<\/li>\n<li>According to Section 497 if a man has sexual intercourse with another&#8217;s wife without the husband&#8217;s &#8220;consent or connivance&#8221;, he is guilty of the offence of adultery and shall be punished&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Critics of the Section 497 opine that the provision undermines individual independent identity of a woman as it treats woman as a mere property of her husband. This leads to subordination of a woman while the Constitution confers women equal status<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adultery must remain a punishable offence: Centre News: Recently, the Centre contended that adultery should remain a crime to protect the institution of marriage Important Facts: The Centre has opposed a petition before the Supreme Court that challenges the constitutionality of Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code The petition challenges the validity of Section&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/adultery-must-remain-a-punishable-offence-centre\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adultery must remain a punishable offence: Centre<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704661949},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}