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Has
sexual intercourse with a women who is and whom he knows or has reason to believe
to be the wife of another man.
Without the consent or connivance
of the husband, and
It does not amount to rape.
The
inconsistencies of the man are punishable, but not the inconsistencies of the
wife. The wife is not punishable as an abettor. It is not committed by a married
man who has sexual intercourse with an unmarried woman, or with a widow, or even
with a married woman whose husband consents to it.
PUNISHMENT
Whoever
commits adultery shall be punished with an imprisonment which may extend to five
years, or with fine, or with both. The wife as an abettor shall not be punishable.
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