Adultery FIR Quashed as Love Affair No Longer Constitutes a Crime Following Supreme Court Verdict: Rajasthan High Court
The Rajasthan High Court, Jaipur Bench, in a significant ruling, has quashed criminal proceedings initiated under Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), holding that prosecutions based on the now-abolished adultery law cannot continue after the Supreme Court’s landmark judgment in Joseph Shine v. Union of India, 2019 (3) SCC 39, which declared the provision unconstitutional. Case Details And Earlier Proceedings The case arose from a complaint lodged by…
