Women Are Not 'Chattel,' Says India's Supreme Court In Striking Down Adultery Law
The five justices said the law is unconstitutional because it "treats a husband as the master." The ruling comes barely two weeks after the high court decriminalized gay sex.
India's Supreme Court has struck down a colonial-era law that made adultery illegal, calling it arbitrary and saying it is unconstitutional because it "treats a husband as the master."
of the Indian Penal Code makes it a crime for a man to have intercourse with another man's wife "without the consent or
