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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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Adultery Laws Still Applicable In Armed Forces, Clarifies Supreme Court
Observing that military discipline will be affected if there is an army with "completely loose morals", the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the armed forces can take action against their officers for adulterous acts.
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Armed Forces Must Have Disciplinary Mechanism To Curb Adultry: Supreme Court
Supreme Court on Thursday said that armed forces must have some kind of mechanism for disciplinary proceedings against army officers for adultery as "this is a conduct that can shake up the life of officers."
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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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Army Wants Homosexuality, Adultery To Remain Punishable Offences: Report
The Army wants homosexuality and adultery to remain as punishable offences to ensure discipline and has made a representation to the Defence Ministry, a year after the Supreme Court decriminalised these acts, sources said on Thursday.
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Won't Allow Gay Sex In The Army, Says Chief General Rawat
Gay sex will not be allowed in the Indian Army, its chief General Bipin Rawat said on Thursday when asked to comment on the Supreme Court decriminalizing homosexuality.
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"Why Target Triple Talaq But Support Homosexuality?": Asaduddin Owaisi To Centre
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi today questioned the logic behind the government curbing the practice of Triple Talaq while supporting the "decriminalisation" of homosexuality. He termed it as an attack on the rights conferred upon Muslims by the constitution.
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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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What Equality? Women Superior To Men, Uma Bharti Says On Adultery Ruling
On a day the Supreme Court declared adultery is no longer a crime in India and said women cannot be treated as "chattel", union minister Uma Bharti claimed equal rights is a western concept and that in India women have been considered superior to men.
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Cop Locked In Bedroom By Angry Husband In Rare Case Of Jail For Adultery
Adultery is no longer a crime, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, declaring a colonial-era law that punished the offence with jail time unconstitutional and discriminatory against women. The more than century-old adultery law prescribed that any man who slept with a married woman without her husband's permission had committed adultery, a crime ca...
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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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Adultery Laws Still Applicable In Armed Forces, Clarifies Supreme Court
Observing that military discipline will be affected if there is an army with "completely loose morals", the Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the armed forces can take action against their officers for adulterous acts.
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Armed Forces Must Have Disciplinary Mechanism To Curb Adultry: Supreme Court
Supreme Court on Thursday said that armed forces must have some kind of mechanism for disciplinary proceedings against army officers for adultery as "this is a conduct that can shake up the life of officers."
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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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Army Wants Homosexuality, Adultery To Remain Punishable Offences: Report
The Army wants homosexuality and adultery to remain as punishable offences to ensure discipline and has made a representation to the Defence Ministry, a year after the Supreme Court decriminalised these acts, sources said on Thursday.
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Won't Allow Gay Sex In The Army, Says Chief General Rawat
Gay sex will not be allowed in the Indian Army, its chief General Bipin Rawat said on Thursday when asked to comment on the Supreme Court decriminalizing homosexuality.
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"Why Target Triple Talaq But Support Homosexuality?": Asaduddin Owaisi To Centre
All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi today questioned the logic behind the government curbing the practice of Triple Talaq while supporting the "decriminalisation" of homosexuality. He termed it as an attack on the rights conferred upon Muslims by the constitution.
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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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What Equality? Women Superior To Men, Uma Bharti Says On Adultery Ruling
On a day the Supreme Court declared adultery is no longer a crime in India and said women cannot be treated as "chattel", union minister Uma Bharti claimed equal rights is a western concept and that in India women have been considered superior to men.
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Cop Locked In Bedroom By Angry Husband In Rare Case Of Jail For Adultery
Adultery is no longer a crime, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday, declaring a colonial-era law that punished the offence with jail time unconstitutional and discriminatory against women. The more than century-old adultery law prescribed that any man who slept with a married woman without her husband's permission had committed adultery, a crime ca...
