{"id":56474,"date":"2016-11-25T20:00:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T20:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ht_sonal_kalra_adultery_not_cruelty_says_indian_supreme_court-_really\/"},"modified":"2016-11-25T20:00:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T20:00:57","slug":"ht_sonal_kalra_adultery_not_cruelty_says_indian_supreme_court-_really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56474","title":{"rendered":"(HT) Sonal Kalra: Adultery not cruelty, says Indian Supreme Court. Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s ruling on Thursday that adultery does not amount to mental cruelty per se runs the risk of treading a fine line between being seemingly progressive, and terribly detached from reality.<br \/>\nThe remarks were made as the two-judge bench acquitted a man convicted by the high court for abetting his wife\u2019s suicide, allegedly due to his affair with a woman colleague. While calling an extra-marital affair \u201cillegal and immoral\u201d\u009d and retaining it as a ground for divorce, the judges felt that it should still not draw criminal provisions under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code, as the latter depends on evidence that the affair directly led to the suicide.<br \/>\nOne wonders if in a country like India, the magnitude of social stigma attached to a woman whose husband left her for someone else can be ignored while defining cruelty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/analysis\/adultery-not-cruelty-says-supreme-court-really\/story-cKcZ77PVwIFDl1hdq4MuoO.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s ruling on Thursday that adultery does not amount to mental cruelty per se runs the risk of treading a fine line between being seemingly progressive, and terribly detached from reality. The remarks were made as the two-judge<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56474\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,175,201,168,481,114,98,125,177,129,34,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-asia","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-india","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-men","category-pastoral-theology","category-psychology","category-theology","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}