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Women Are Not 'Chattel,' Says India's Supreme Court In Striking Down Adultery Law

The five justices said the law is unconstitutional because it "treats a husband as the master." The ruling comes barely two weeks after the high court decriminalized gay sex.
The hands of a mehendi (henna)-decorated bride is pictured in Mumbai in 2014. India's Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law that makes adultery a crime.

India's Supreme Court has struck down a colonial-era law that made adultery illegal, calling it arbitrary and saying it is unconstitutional because it "treats a husband as the master."

of the Indian Penal Code makes it a crime for a man to have intercourse with another man's wife "without the consent or

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