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Law Point: IPC 497

Section 497 in The Indian Penal Code 497.

Adultery.—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 offence of rape, is guilty of the offence of adultery, and shall be
punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, or with
fine, or with both. In such case the wife shall not be punishable as an abettor.