Supreme Court · 1988 INSC 61 · Decided 25 February 1988
V Revathi v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1988 INSC 61 · [1988] 3 S.C.R. 73
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 562/1986
- Decided
- 25 February 1988
- Bench
- M.P. THAKKAR, M.M. DUTT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 198(1), 497; CrPC Section 198(1), 198(2), 198; Constitution Article 14, 32
Headnote
B f-. Constitution of India, I950: Art. 14---Constitutional validity of ss. 198( 1) and 198(2) Cr. P. C.-Adultery-Right to prosecute husband / not extended to the wife of the adulterer-Whether amounts to hostile ., • \ discrimination on the ground of sex. · ~· Criminal Procedure the - adulterer-Whether hostile discrimination violative of Art. 14 of the Constitution of India. The constitutional validity of Section 198 Cr.P.C. has been called D into question by a wife by way of the present petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India. The petitioner wife
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