+1 862 207 3288 The cardinal objective of this paper is to analyze the issues addressed in Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 which deals with adultery and to provide for reforms that seek to alter the statute or its policies under which the Constitution has so far based these laws on. The first part of the article provides an introduction and an insight into how adultery is defined as well as perceptivity to its various characteristics. It also looks back at its historical aspects. The second part of the article criticizes the existing law and rulings of the Honorable Supreme Court and confronts the constitutional validity based on various cases….(short extract)
