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IPC Section 497: Adultery law, key facts, criminal offense or not, provision, details
IPC Section 497 details, Adultery law for extramarital affairs, Description about the criminal offense, provisions
Under section 497 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), if a married man makes a physical connection to another married woman with mutual consent, then the woman's husband can file a case against that man in the name of adultism (adultery). However, such a person can not take action against his wife and neither the wife of the man engaged in extramarital affairs can take any action against this other woman.
Under this section, it is also a provision that only the husband of his partner woman can take action against the man involved in extramarital affairs and file a complaint. No complaint against such a person will be accepted on the complaint of any other relative or close.
Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which decrees that "whoever has sexual intercourse with a person who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife of another man, without the consent or connivance of that man, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offense of rape, is guilty of the offense of adultery,and shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, or with fine, or with both", is as historical and legal as Macaulian, so to speak.
