Multiple choice

X, a married woman of 40 years old with her own free will leaves her husband's house and began to live with her paramour Y as husband and wife. The husband of the wife files a criminal case against Y. Point out the correct answer.

  1. Y is libale for keeping the woman as wife

  2. Y is not liable because the woman has left her husband's house by her own free will

  3. Y is not liable because neither she has been kidnapped nor abducted

  4. Y is liable for bigamy
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Under the Indian Penal Code (prior to the decriminalization of adultery), adultery required the man to have sexual intercourse with a woman without the consent of her husband. If the woman left of her own free will, it did not constitute the offense of kidnapping or abduction.

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