Time when wife lived in shadow of husband has gone: SC judge
Reading out her verdict on the validity of Section 497 (Adultery) of the IPC, Justice Indu Malhotra said, "The time when wives lived in the shadows of husbands has gone." "There's no justification for continuance of the section framed in 1860 to remain on statute," she added. She was the only woman judge in the five-member bench giving the verdict. 