Adultery  

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has sent a stern message against adultery. Yogi stated that it will not be tolerated if anyone commits adultery and will meet the same fate as those who have been charged for instant triple talaq. 

Some of the judgments of 2018 have been unanimously hailed. While some verdicts have been welcomed, others have been criticised.  Many consider that if anything, it is a clear sign that the court has not played favorites. 

Pushpalatha (24) fell sick and husband Franklin (27) began to have an extramarital affair. When the wife questioned about the issue, he justified his extramarital affair referring to the Supreme Court's verdict on adultery.

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A five-judge Constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra was unanimous in striking down Section 497 of IPC dealing with the offence of adultery, holding it manifestly arbitrary, archaic and violative of the rights to equality and equal opportunity to women

Observing that most countries have abolished the law, three judges in the five-member Constitution bench held that making adultery a crime is retrograde and would mean "punishing unhappy people".

A man beheaded his wife for cheating on him with another man from the same village in Karnataka's Chikmagalur.