India's top court on Thursday decriminalized adultery in a landmark judgment aimed at upholding the right to equality and freedom, scrapping a law first brought in under British colonial rule in 1860. Three weeks ago, the Supreme Court scrapped a colonial-era ban on gay sex. Petitioner Joseph Shine, a businessman, had challenged the constitutional validity of the adultery law, saying it discriminates against both men and women. "The judgment has unequivocally said the state has no business to interfere in aberrations in relations within a family," the senior lawyer in the Supreme Court told Reuters. "Decriminalizing adultery is not licensing adultery," Justice Chandrachud observed while hearing the case.

Source: CBC News September 27, 2018 15:56 UTC