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" Men whose wives have relationships with other men can go ahead and file a criminal complaint against the 'other man'. The Bombay high court on Monday dismissed a petition that sought the deletion of offence of adultery from Indian law. A bench of Justices B H Marlapalle and U D Salvi upheld the Constitutional validity of provision of Section 497 of Indian Penal Code, which makes adultery punishable. The petition was filed by a Worli businessman against whom a complaint of adultery was filed last year. His counsel Nitin Pradhan argued that making adultery punishable was a violation of a person's fundamental rights like the right to life, right to privacy and the right to have sexual relationships with a person of one's choice in a changing society where there was greater acceptance of consensual relationships. "