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Wife Living In Adultery Not Entitled To Maintenance: Delhi Court
Rejecting a divorced woman's plea seeking financial assistance, a Delhi court has observed that a wife living in adultery is not entitled to any maintenance from her husband.
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"Make Adultery Crime Again": MPs' Panel Contradicts Supreme Court Order
Adultery should be made a crime again because "the institution of marriage is sacred" and it must be "protected", a parliamentary panel recommended to the government Tuesday in its report on the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita.
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'Keep Adultery A Crime In Armed Forces': Top Court To Study Centre's Plea
The Supreme Court today agreed to examine the Central government's request to keep adultery a crime in the armed forces. A bench of the top court today requested the Chief Justice of India to set up a five-judge constitution bench to issue clarification on the Centre's plea.
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Adultery Can Be Result, May Not Be Cause Of Unhappy Marriage: Top Court
The Supreme Court, while striking down the law on adultery on Thursday, said that treating it as an offence would tantamount to punishing people who are unhappy in marital relationships.
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"Matter Of Privacy": Key Points In Supreme Court's Adultery Ruling
Adultery is not a crime anymore in India, but it can be grounds for divorce, the Supreme Court said today. In past hearings, the Supreme Court had asked the centre how the 158-year-old law preserved the sanctity of marriage when the extramarital affair becomes non-punishable if the woman's husband stands by her. The government has defended the law,...
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Married Women Have Sexual Autonomy Like Right To Say "No": Top Court
If a woman has the right to say "no", then it has to be accepted that she also does not lose her "sexual autonomy" after marriage, a Supreme Court judge said on Thursday. Justice DY Chandrachud, who was part of a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra examining the penal law on adultery, also said that if a person indulge...
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Islamic State Jihadists Open 'Marriage Bureau'
The Islamic State, which advocates public stoning for adultery, has opened a "marriage bureau" for women who want to wed its fighters in territory they control in Syria and Iraq.
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Adultery site big in Japan where marriage reigns
Ashley Madison, the world's biggest online hookup site for married people, works only when monogamy is the rule on the surface but, deep inside, couples want to cheat.
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Wife of US general says infidelity a toll of wars
The wife of a U.S. Army general facing adultery and sex charges said on Monday military marriages have suffered from the extended U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan and described infidelity as an emotional war wound that gets overlooked.
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Cheating spouses keep Pakistani private detective busy
Twenty-three years of military service come in handy when Masood Haider gets a call from a suspicious spouse. In deeply conservative Muslim Pakistan where arranged marriages are common and adultery can be punished by death, it is an illustration of how much the society is changing that Mr Haider's private detective agency exists at all.
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Wife Living In Adultery Not Entitled To Maintenance: Delhi Court
Rejecting a divorced woman's plea seeking financial assistance, a Delhi court has observed that a wife living in adultery is not entitled to any maintenance from her husband.
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"Make Adultery Crime Again": MPs' Panel Contradicts Supreme Court Order
Adultery should be made a crime again because "the institution of marriage is sacred" and it must be "protected", a parliamentary panel recommended to the government Tuesday in its report on the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita.
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'Keep Adultery A Crime In Armed Forces': Top Court To Study Centre's Plea
The Supreme Court today agreed to examine the Central government's request to keep adultery a crime in the armed forces. A bench of the top court today requested the Chief Justice of India to set up a five-judge constitution bench to issue clarification on the Centre's plea.
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Adultery Can Be Result, May Not Be Cause Of Unhappy Marriage: Top Court
The Supreme Court, while striking down the law on adultery on Thursday, said that treating it as an offence would tantamount to punishing people who are unhappy in marital relationships.
-
"Matter Of Privacy": Key Points In Supreme Court's Adultery Ruling
Adultery is not a crime anymore in India, but it can be grounds for divorce, the Supreme Court said today. In past hearings, the Supreme Court had asked the centre how the 158-year-old law preserved the sanctity of marriage when the extramarital affair becomes non-punishable if the woman's husband stands by her. The government has defended the law,...
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Married Women Have Sexual Autonomy Like Right To Say "No": Top Court
If a woman has the right to say "no", then it has to be accepted that she also does not lose her "sexual autonomy" after marriage, a Supreme Court judge said on Thursday. Justice DY Chandrachud, who was part of a five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra examining the penal law on adultery, also said that if a person indulge...
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Islamic State Jihadists Open 'Marriage Bureau'
The Islamic State, which advocates public stoning for adultery, has opened a "marriage bureau" for women who want to wed its fighters in territory they control in Syria and Iraq.
-
Adultery site big in Japan where marriage reigns
Ashley Madison, the world's biggest online hookup site for married people, works only when monogamy is the rule on the surface but, deep inside, couples want to cheat.
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Wife of US general says infidelity a toll of wars
The wife of a U.S. Army general facing adultery and sex charges said on Monday military marriages have suffered from the extended U.S. involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan and described infidelity as an emotional war wound that gets overlooked.
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Cheating spouses keep Pakistani private detective busy
Twenty-three years of military service come in handy when Masood Haider gets a call from a suspicious spouse. In deeply conservative Muslim Pakistan where arranged marriages are common and adultery can be punished by death, it is an illustration of how much the society is changing that Mr Haider's private detective agency exists at all.
