Very recently, The Indian Supreme Court decided to scrap the Section of the Indian Penal Code that stated: "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 offense of rape, is guilty of the offense of adultery. The same section also permitted up to 5 years of imprisonment in case of this offense. However, it was considered to be archaic and as a result, adultery has been decriminalized in India. The psychological impact of adultery is far stronger than the legal context can even begin to cover.
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New Delhi: A man was arrested for allegedly killing his live-in partner over suspicion of her having an illicit relationship, police said on Friday. Ram Das 42 was arrested from Connaught Place here while he was trying to flee to the New Delhi Railway station after the committing the crime. Das was married but was in a live-in relationship with Payal and they were living together with the consent of his wife, the police said. For the past few weeks, Payal was living with her sister after a dispute with Das over buying a plot in the name of his wife. Payal had come to visit Das when they again got into an argument and he allegedly killed her by scarring her throat with a wooden rod, the police said. Get the best of News18 delivered to your inbox - subscribe to News18 Daybreak.
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A married woman and her lover were tied to a tree and beaten and filmed in India for having an affair. The incident happened in the village of Ranika, Haryana, according to an international news website. The in laws immediately realised that the woman was in an illicit relationship.