PUTRAJAYA: A provision in the Penal Code that criminalises men for enticing married women is unconstitutional and should be abolished, a lawyer told a Federal Court five-member bench.
Lawyer Jayarubbiny Jayaraj, whose client is charged with enticing a married woman, argued that Section 498 of the Penal Code violated women’s right to equality before the law as the section only accorded husbands the right to initiate criminal proceedings against a person who interfered in their marriage.
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