SC scrapped IPC497: A Small Step towards Gender Equality
IPC 497 was a Victorian Law & has taken too long a time to be scrapped down. It's another significant change in the Indian society from the socio-legal perspective. Does it mean that extra-marital affairs got legal permission? Not at all. This verdict doesn't legalise extra-marital affairs, neither does it allow everyone to practice extra-marital affairs. They still remain illegal. The wife / husband, on feeling being cheated, can always file a divorce suit against the corresponding spouse. Faith n loyalty in the Institution called marriage still remain legally necessary & indispensable. To remain happily married, couples still need to remain completely faithful towards each other. Then what's the change that happened? Nothing but the court addressed that loving anyone else too in spite of being married falls under a person's personal ambit. It's not really punishable by law, particularly when the penal law fails to address a problem or an offence i...