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India’s Top Court: Adultery No Longer Criminal Offense

India’s Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has presided over a string of verdicts in recent weeks that grant more rights to women, gay couples and religious minorities as he prepares to retire from the bench next month. Legal experts say that the rapid-fire judgments have the potential to upturn traditions in deeply conservative Indian society. On Thursday, Chief Justice Dipak Misra and the rest of the court struck down a 158-year-old law that held adultery as a criminal offense...


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