Adultery is no longer cirme now in India.

New Delhi 27th September 2018 : India's supreme court on 27th September 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.

In a unanimous judgment, the five-member bench of the top court struck down a law that meant a man who had sex with a married woman without getting her husband's permission could be charged and face up to five years in Jail if convicted .

"Adultery cannot and shoult not be a crime.  It can be a ground for a civil offense, a ground for divorce," Chief Justice of India Dipak Misra said while reading out the judgment.

While very few people have been  for adultery in recent years, the threat of charges has often been used in matrimonial disputes to put pressure on women, lawyers said. 

"Physicality is an individual choice," Justice D.Y. Chandrachud, one of the five-member bench, said in the ruling. The law was based on the concept that a woman loses her individuality once she is married, he said, adding, " adultery is a relic of past "

Husband Beheaded His Wife For Illegal Relationship In India

CHIKKAMAGALURU, KARNATAKA : A woman was beheaded by her own husband on Saturday at the Shivani railway station in Ajjampura taluk on the suspicion of her having illegal affair.

Accused Sathish saw his wife together with another person and chopped  off her head with a machete. He wrapped the head in a bag and rode his motorbike 20 km to reach Ajjampura police station where he surrendered before the police along with the severed head.
On seeing his wife together with another person, an angry Sathish threw the machete at the person. But the latter escaped and and fled the scene. The next target was his wife. He cut off her head and took it to the police station on his motorcycle.

Accused Sathish had married Roopa nine years ago after falling in love with her. The couple has two children - one boy and a girl.

Two Malaysian Women Caned For Lesbian Sex

A  image shows two women who were each caned six times after they pleaded guilty at the Sharia High Court to homosexual activity in the state of Terengganu, Malaysia. Photograph: Stringer/EPA

KUALA TERENGGANU, 03 Sep: Two Malaysian women were caned  for having lesbian sex in violation of Islamic laws.
The women, dressed in headscarves, aged 32 and 22, had pleaded guilty last month to attempting lesbian sex, forbidden under Islamic law. They were sentenced to a fine and six lashings of the cane.One of them breaking down in tears.
Rights campaigners said it was the first time women in Malaysia have been caned for violating a syariah regulation which forbidssame-sex relations.
Sharia criminal procedure allows the court to determine where the sentence will be carried out, and requires that it must be witnessed by a number of other Muslims.
Malaysian women’s groups Justice for Sisters and Sisters in Islam called for a review of laws that allowed the caning of women.
A trans woman was beaten up by a group of assailants in Seremban south of Kuala lumpur on August 15th, in what activists said was part of a growing hostility towards gay and transgender people.