In a dramatic turn of events, a woman approached the police to file a complaint against her husband, who she reportedly found having dosa with his girlfriend in his car. But to her shock, since adultery is no longer a crime in India, she couldn't file the lawsuit. The incident took place in the Banda district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday evening.
The husband, who works with the state government as a junior engineer (JE), reportedly took his girlfriend outside a temple to have a snack together.
He got her dosa from a nearby restaurant. His wife, who was accompanied by her brother, reached the spot just as he was serving the dish to his partner, and he was caught red-handed. The wife took the couple to the nearby Civil Lines police station with the help of her brother, where she alleged that her husband was having an extra-marital affair.
She decided to file a complaint with the police.?
According to a report, the wife also alleged that this was not the first time her husband was caught philandering and that he had been involved with many other women in extramarital affairs with whom he sometimes roamed around.
She wanted police officers to file a complaint.?
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However, the officials refused to lodge the case against the husband. They just gave him a warning instead and let him go.?
In 2018, a five-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India, headed by the then Chief Justice Dipak Misra, repealed Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code, which dealt with adultery - this means that adultery is no longer a criminal offence.
The defunct Section 497 stated, ¡®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 offence of rape, is guilty of the offence 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. In such case the wife shall not be punishable as an abettor¡¯.
Adultery has been decriminalized, but it can still be a ground for divorce.