Husband is not master of wife: Supreme Court on adultery law
The Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra, while reading out Supreme Court's verdict scrapping the 150-year-old law which criminalised adultery, said, "Equality is the governing principle of a system. Husband is not the master of the wife." He added, "Section 497 is manifestly arbitrary, offends dignity of women." He further said, "Any provision treating woman with inequality is not Constitutional."