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Adultery verdict: Relief for some 'wronged' husbands, more harassment for others

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Sep 27 2018 | 7:11 PM IST

Over the last 10 years, he lost custody of his child, was fired from two jobs and suffered huge mental trauma after his wife registered a case against him on charges of adultery.

The charges were false, said Ashok Dixit*, and the harassment only too real.

On Thursday,
Section 497 of the 158-year-old IPC says: "Whoever has sexual intercourse with a person who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of another man, without the consent or connivance of that man, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offence of rape, is guilty of the offence of adultery."

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First Published: Sep 27 2018 | 7:11 PM IST

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