Unequal treatment of women invites wrath of Constitution: Supreme Court

The Supreme Court Thursday delivered its judgment on the constitutional validity of a penal provision of adultery saying that unequal treatment of women invites the wrath of the Constitution.

The apex court's five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra said the beauty of the Constitution is that it includes "the I, me and you".

The apex court is dealing with section 497 of the 158-year-old Indian Penal Code 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 to the offense of rape, is guilty of the offense of adultery."