Adultery No Longer a Crime; Constable's Dismissal Over Alleged Adulterous Relationship Quashed: Jharkhand High Court

The Jharkhand High Court has quashed the dismissal of Jharkhand Armed Police constable Bharat Pathak @ Bharat Kumar Pathak, holding that the disciplinary authority illegally removed him from service on a ground that was never included in the departmental charge-sheet. The Court also observed that adultery is no longer a criminal offence after the Supreme Court's decision in Joseph Shine v. Union of India, and therefore such allegations could not…