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Friday, October 24, 2025
TopicAdultery law

Topic: Adultery law

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

On Camera

US sanctions Rosneft & Lukoil: What we know of 2 oil giants that produce half of Russia’s crude

Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil behemoth, has large interests in India. Reliance has a contract to purchase 500,000 barrels of crude per day from the firm.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.