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Abstract
Companionship and stability are the basic requirements of a human being and to satisfy the same the institution of marriage came into being. Marriage has always been given a sacrosanct status by Indian society which has never allowed people to see its gloomy effects. One such evil effects include the offence of Adultery. The Adultery is an offence committed by a married person when he /she enters into sexual relation outside the marital tie. Adultery as a crime around the world had been decriminalized long back in various countries but few still consider it as an offence. Amongst such countries one was India, until recently when Indian judiciary while exercising its great intellect and power as a protector of constitution decriminalised infidelity under Indian Laws on the grounds of being violative of various fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution of India in one of the writ petition filed before the bench in Joseph shine v. Union of India. The researcher will be trying to analyse that how far this decriminalisation will be beneficial for Indian society focussing on the loopholes of the section 497 I.P.C. and the societal impact of decriminalisation.