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Adultery is an offence in India, culpable with up to five years detainment under Section 497 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860. When one sees the reality, the first response is like a shock at the State's obvious interruption into the apparently private sexual domains of life. The paper starts considering standards managing criminalization of direct, to decide if some principled avocations exist for criminalizing Adultery. My concentration is towards the substantive area of the paper: contending that Section 497 must be cancelled by the Legislature, for entomb alia executing harmful separation between genders. Adultery had been brought under discipline almost 150 years back under the Penal Code 1860 where women were exempted from any reformatory obligation. In spite of the fact that many arrangements of the Code had been altered amid the traverse and request of time, the arrangements of Adultery stay unaltered. The significant lawful arrangements have all the earmarks of being unlawful however the legal elucidations are still for them. This article measures the arrangements of Adultery from lawful and social point of view of 21st century. It is investigated that the law of Adultery is not only just damaged yet in addition initiates the additional conjugal sexual connections. Obviously, the law ensures the women but since of its shortcoming, the law makes the women more powerless in the public eye and furthermore denies them of legitimate insurance. In the wake of dissecting the issue from every single corner, the article reasonably sets up the need of correction of the Code.