Ofoffences Relatingto Marriage
IPC Section 497 - Adultery
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Simple language explanation
IPC Section 497 deals with adultery.
Full official legal text
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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