Adultery is described under which section of
IPC?
a) 314
b) 375
c) 497
d) 504
Correct Answer - C
Ans. is c’ i.e., 497 [Ref Women and the Law p. 167]
Section 497 of IPC says, "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 the offence of rape, is
guilty of the offence of adultery and shall be punished.