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"Who's This Segal?" Supreme Court On Centre's Objection To DY Chandrachud's View On Adultery
Citing foreign articles and judgments quoted by former Chief Justice DY Chandrachud in his verdict decriminalising adultery, the Centre said that "blanket reliance on international judgments is impermissible"
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Interim Maintenance Can't Be Denied On Unproven Adultery Claims: Delhi Court
The Delhi High Court has refused to interfere with an order granting Rs 26,000 per month as interim maintenance to a woman under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (PWDV Act).
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Taliban To Resume Stoning Women In Public For Adultery: Report
The Taliban has announced that the women in Afghanistan will be stoned to death for adultery, a report has said.
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Parliament Panel May Tell Government To Criminalise Adultery Again
A parliamentary committee is likely to recommend re-criminalisation of the adultery law and criminalisation of non-consensual sex between men, women and/or trans members, as part of an overhaul of colonial-era criminal laws in India.
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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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"Can't Keep Women Away From Temple": Dipak Misra On Sabarimala Verdict
Former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, who headed the benches that delivered a series of judgements on important issues including the criminalisation of politics, adultery, homosexuality, lynching and Sabarimala temple, said on Friday that an individual cannot be bereft of the idea of constitutional morality.
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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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Adultery Law Strips Woman Of Sexual Autonomy: Justice Chandrachud
The colonial-era law criminalising adultery strips women of their "sexual autonomy" and treats them as a "chattel" and "property" of their husbands, the Supreme Court ruled today while holding the provision as unconstitutional.
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Delhi Women Panel Chief Trolled For Calling Adultery Verdict "Anti-Women"
Delhi Women Panel Chief Swati Maliwal was brutally trolled on Twitter today for calling Supreme Court's verdict scrapping the adultery law as "anti-women". The top court today said adultery is no longer a crime, junking a 158-year law that punished a man for an affair but not the woman, treating her as her husband's "property".
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In Adultery Case, Chandrachud vs Chandrachud: Son Overrrules Father Again
As the century-old adultery law was scrapped by five most senior Supreme Court judges today, it became the second instance of Chandrachud vs Chandrachud or father vs son. Justice DY Chandrachud was among the five judges who called Section 497, the law that punishes men and not women for adultery, unconstitutional and scrapped it.
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"Who's This Segal?" Supreme Court On Centre's Objection To DY Chandrachud's View On Adultery
Citing foreign articles and judgments quoted by former Chief Justice DY Chandrachud in his verdict decriminalising adultery, the Centre said that "blanket reliance on international judgments is impermissible"
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Interim Maintenance Can't Be Denied On Unproven Adultery Claims: Delhi Court
The Delhi High Court has refused to interfere with an order granting Rs 26,000 per month as interim maintenance to a woman under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (PWDV Act).
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Taliban To Resume Stoning Women In Public For Adultery: Report
The Taliban has announced that the women in Afghanistan will be stoned to death for adultery, a report has said.
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Parliament Panel May Tell Government To Criminalise Adultery Again
A parliamentary committee is likely to recommend re-criminalisation of the adultery law and criminalisation of non-consensual sex between men, women and/or trans members, as part of an overhaul of colonial-era criminal laws in India.
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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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"Can't Keep Women Away From Temple": Dipak Misra On Sabarimala Verdict
Former Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, who headed the benches that delivered a series of judgements on important issues including the criminalisation of politics, adultery, homosexuality, lynching and Sabarimala temple, said on Friday that an individual cannot be bereft of the idea of constitutional morality.
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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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Adultery Law Strips Woman Of Sexual Autonomy: Justice Chandrachud
The colonial-era law criminalising adultery strips women of their "sexual autonomy" and treats them as a "chattel" and "property" of their husbands, the Supreme Court ruled today while holding the provision as unconstitutional.
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Delhi Women Panel Chief Trolled For Calling Adultery Verdict "Anti-Women"
Delhi Women Panel Chief Swati Maliwal was brutally trolled on Twitter today for calling Supreme Court's verdict scrapping the adultery law as "anti-women". The top court today said adultery is no longer a crime, junking a 158-year law that punished a man for an affair but not the woman, treating her as her husband's "property".
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In Adultery Case, Chandrachud vs Chandrachud: Son Overrrules Father Again
As the century-old adultery law was scrapped by five most senior Supreme Court judges today, it became the second instance of Chandrachud vs Chandrachud or father vs son. Justice DY Chandrachud was among the five judges who called Section 497, the law that punishes men and not women for adultery, unconstitutional and scrapped it.
