Hyderabad: Cases of those charged under Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code on adultery will now be scrapped since the Supreme Court has struck down provision in the judgement delivered on Thursday.
Adultery cases are fairly low in Telangana state. The Hyderabad city police says no cases of adultery have been registered recently. A prominent case was filed this April against former TD MP Nama Nageswara Rao under Section 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace) and 506 (criminal intimidation) in the Jubilee Hills police station.
Swati Lakra, additional commissioner of police, Crimes & SIT, said, “New reported cases will fall in line with the judgement of the Supreme Court. In time, earlier registered cases will lose their substance in the court of law.”
In regard to the current reported cases, prison superintendent Basheera Begum said, “We currently do not house any prisoners who have been charged under Adultery at the Telangana state prisons.”
DCP, West Zone, A.R. Srinivas said the police would now seek legal opinion on investigating old cases.
