Why was adultery law enacted in 1860, why it had to go now

Justice Rohinton F Nariman said almost all ancient civilisations punished the "sin of adultery" and Hammurabi's Code of 1754 BC prescribed death by drowning as punishment for the offence, be it by the wife or the husband.

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