In India, adultery is no longer a crime. But as in other countries? The Supreme court of India ruled that adultery is no longer a criminal offence. Repealed act, adopted 158 years ago. Upstairs According to the law introduced in colonial times, every man engaged in sex with a married woman without the permission of her husband, has been convicted in a criminal adultery. It’s unclear how many men had since been charged under this article is data on this. The plaintiff complained of the law, said that it was used arbitrarily and discriminated against both men and women. This is the second recent historic decision of the Supreme court of India, repealing of laws of the colonial era. In early September, the court decriminalized same-sex relations are a criminal offence for 157 years. In announcing the decision on the law about adultery, the chief justice Dipak Misra said that
