What is the punishment for an extramarital affair?
According to the Indian Penal Code section 497-
“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 the connivance of that man, such sexual intercourse not amounting to the offense of rape is guilty of the offense 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 a case, the wife shall [not] be punishable as an abettor.”