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TypeBare Act JurisdictionCentral Government

The Indian Penal Code 1860 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

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The Indian Penal Code 1860 Section 497 is part of The Indian Penal Code 1860 - ADULTERY Whoever has sexual intercourse with a person who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife. Read the section text below and explore Indian court judgments that cite it.

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Section Text

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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Section Section 497 of the The Indian Penal Code 1860 (ADULTERY Whoever has sexual intercourse with a person who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the wife) is reproduced on this page as part of the The Indian Penal Code 1860. Lawyers and researchers use it to read the statutory wording before checking how courts have applied this section in reported judgments.

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