‘Woman is considered as husband’s property and its devastating consequences is well documented in Mahabharata’; Delhi HC discharges man in adultery case
The Court stated that despite having example of Mahabharata to demonstrate the consequence of absurdity of treating of a woman as a chattel, the misogynistic mindset of our society understood this only when the Supreme Court declared Section 497 of Penal Code, 1860 as unconstitutional in Joseph Shine v. Union of India, (2018) 2 SCC 189.