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TopicAdultery law

Topic: Adultery law

Armed forces can take action against officers for adultery, rules Supreme Court

ThePrint Team -
Top court clarified its 2018 order was not concerned with provisions of Army Act. Four years ago, SC had struck down IPC Section 497, a 150-year-old law that criminalised adultery.

On 377 ruling, Arun Jaitley disagrees with reasoning that sexuality is part of free speech

PTI -
Jaitley also differed on a portion of the apex court ruling on adultery, saying it may end up converting the Indian family system into a Western family system.

I am a rational human being, not a liberal, says Delhi Commission for Women chief

Sanya Dhingra -
Delhi Commission for Women chief Swati Maliwal has found herself in the crosshairs of feminists too often of late.

Uttar Pradesh police ‘rulebook’, and the real lords in India

Rupanwita Bhattacharjee -
The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

In the Indian Army, troops can still be punished for adultery

Amrita Nayak Dutta -
Indian military can punish troops for extra-marital relations even without law that made adultery a crime.

Supreme Court’s balancing act on Aadhaar, and adultery law’s fall

Rupanwita Bhattacharjee -
The best cartoons of the day, chosen by editors at ThePrint.

Justice Indu Malhotra’s reading of Section 377 verdict was a mic-drop moment

Apurva Vishwanath -
After Section 377, Justice Malhotra will also be part of the benches that will rule on Sabarimala issue and adultery laws.

India’s lopsided adultery law: Adverse impact of patriarchy on men or women?

ThePrint Team -
Experts weigh in on India's adultery laws that only hold men guilty under section 497 of the Indian Penal Code.

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Economy

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Defence

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National Interest

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Shekhar Gupta -
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