{"id":33378,"date":"2018-10-30T12:02:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=33378"},"modified":"2018-10-30T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T06:32:00","slug":"adultery-law-weighted-in-favour-of-men-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/adultery-law-weighted-in-favour-of-men-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Adultery law weighted in favour of men: SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/adultery-law-weighted-in-favour-of-men-sc\/article21374879.ece\"><strong>Adultery law weighted in favour of men: SC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adultery law<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13146 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.forumias.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sc.jpg?resize=720%2C374\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sc.jpg?w=720&amp;ssl=1 720w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sc.jpg?resize=150%2C78&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sc.jpg?resize=300%2C156&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>SC\u2019s view<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The time has come when the society must realise that a woman is equal to a man in every respect<\/li>\n<li>The provision [Section 497] really creates a dent in the individual independent identity of a woman when the emphasis is laid on the connivance or consent of the husband,\u201d the court said. \u201cThis is tantamount to subordination of a woman where the Constitution confers equal status [on women]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Provisions that court shall examine<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The court will examine two aspects of the penal provision<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>One<\/strong>, why does Section 497 treat the man as the adulterer and the married woman as a victim?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Two<\/strong>, the offence of adultery ceases the moment it is established that the husband connived or consented to the adulterous act. So, is a married woman the \u201cproperty\u201d of her husband, a passive object without a mind of her own?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adultery law weighted in favour of men: SC Context Adultery law SC\u2019s view The time has come when the society must realise that a woman is equal to a man in every respect The provision [Section 497] really creates a dent in the individual independent identity of a woman when the emphasis is laid on&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/adultery-law-weighted-in-favour-of-men-sc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adultery law weighted in favour of men: SC<\/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-33378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33378","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=33378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}