Family Law Videos - Legal Advice: Husband having extra marital affair

Matrimonial Lawyer Sudershani Ray talks about the possible legal action that can be taken against a husband who is having an extra marital affair. Know your legal rights as a wife by getting free legal advice at www.lawrato.com or by consulting Advocate Sudershani Ray at http://lawrato.com/advocate-sudershani-ray...

Adultery is defined under law as a consensual physical correlation between two individuals who are not married to each other and either or both are married to someone else. 

Under Section 497 of the Indian penal code, adultery is considered as an offence and is punishable in India

Section-497- Adultery “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.”

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