Woman cannot commit adultery in India

Not only the law of adultery should be amended there are many laws of IPC should be revised. Many members of the LCI might know how deadly the law 498a is. Our central government should take in to consider & revised our many of the law of IPC. Males & Females should be treated equally in all the aspect. Right now the situation is that due to efforts of many groups (female belonging) in past puts efforts to make condition of females better had shown good response. Many IPC laws were framed to protect females but on the same they had not consider the misuse of that that law against male. Now IPC should be revised in such a way that females & males should be consider equal & then law should be constructed. PLEASE NOTE THAT I'M NOT IN AGAINST FEMALES. I DO RESPECT FEMALES. FOR ANY FAMILY TO BE COMPLETE & SUCCESSFUL THERE SHOULD BE BOTH MALE & FEMALES. THE ONLY THINGS THERE SHOULD BE A VERY GOOD UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN MALES & FEMALES THEN ONLY COMPLETE & SUCCESSFUL FAMILY EXIST.

||OM SAI RAM||

yes adultery law must be amended and both females and males must be punished for adultery.

a man or a woman willingly engaging in affairs with a married woman or a man too shud be punished,besides the adulterer himself.

however if such a person has affair with a married person,who was lied to his lover that he is unmarried or is blackmailing him into having affair,then such a person may be spared,and only the married person punished for adultery as well a blackmailing

It is a blot on the Statue book and should be scraped.

I am biggest victim of this though its not full adultery as my wife is having extramarital affairs with no s*xual involvement with a guy as far as I think .she is openly flaunting and claiming she is having it and she  wants to do it. she also said that its not a crime to have extramarital affairs. I want to take legal action on that guy is it possible any way as I love my wife very much and want to protect my family.what are the wayout

According to Sec497 if your wife gets indulged in se*ual realtion  with that boy then only he can be prosecuted.

Otherwise you can do nothing.

As she claims that she has relation with that guy , it amounts to cruelty on you.It can be a ground of divorce only which you or we don't want.So, better you talk with her regarding this matter and try to solve it with love.

ALL THE BEST.

Mr. Abhjit: a case similar to yours was reported in Mumbai Mirror on New Years Day.  You can file a criminal complaint against the man involved under Section 497 of the IPC. But you say that your wife's affair does not involve s*x. If it is really so and you believe so the case is a bit difficult. In the case reported yesterday also the defendent claimed that there was no s*x. But the aggrieved husband hired a private detective and got the two photographed hugging and kissing and produced them in the court. His advocate claimed that more evidence was not practicable. The defendant's advocate realising his argument was weak withdrew the argument. The case has been referred back to the trial court. I do not the above information will help you in any way. You can cite your wife's behaviour as a ground for divorce.

Now coming back to IPC 497, it seems it is not applicable to Catholics. I remember years ago a case came up before the Madras High Court against a man and a woman, both Christians, who were allegedly in adulterous relationship. Whereas the court took a lenient view on the man, it punished the woman. The reason given was that, whereas a man engaging in adultery posed no risk to his legal family, an adulterous woman may thrust her illegitimate child on her legitimate husband.

Kalidasa gives the same argument when Dushyanta disowns Shakuntala. Curiously in English also the hapless husband is referred to as "cuckold"

If what you say is right why don't you apply the same to your wife and see the results...for me it seems that you are having some scarcity of time to spend along for which the problem arose and she is using this technique to get your attention and time...

Hello, Its really a sad story to hear about,because whenever I hear marriages at doldrums I feel sorry,by the way don,t you have kids ..as you said you are having long years of relationship and already married since 2005, kids are one of the gods gifted bond to give a marriage finality and responsibility gives a strong tie in between couples.As you said you people have not enjoyed a normal wedding which might have had some effect in your better half,s mind a feeling like something lacking in the life, As you already said she said she is not having any other kind of relationship with her friend but only talking and spending time with them, to be frank without physical things you can not term it as extra marital ...but yes sometime it happens that after some 9 /10 years of married life every married couple experience some syndrome which I do not remember exactly when they become detached from each other psychologically...actually I have studied about it somewhere in psychology..and even people who have love marriage also face this problem...so the crux is try to find out the root cause only than you will be able to tackle and fight it..I in this new year wish you all good luck and pray to god that your life is settled again with your love.Happy New Year 2011.