SC's Adultery Judgment Applies To All Pending Proceedings Even With Retrospective Effect: Punjab & Haryana HC [Read Order]
Ashok Kini
11 March 2019 12:38 PM IST
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The Punjab and Haryana High Court has quashed a complaint filed in 2014 alleging an offence of Adultery, in view of the judgment of the Supreme Court in Joseph Shine vs. Union of India. The Constitution bench of the Supreme Court had, on 27th September 2018, struck down 158 year old Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code, which criminalizes adultery. Relying on this judgment, the...
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