Adultery Is No Longer a Crime in India After Another Landmark Ruling

India's highest court has struck down a century-old law that made adultery a criminal offense, the BBC reports.

In a unanimous ruling, the judges declared extramarital sex can no longer serve as grounds for arrest, although it remains a cause for divorce.

According to the 158-year-old colonial-era law, a man who has sex with a married woman, without the permission of her husband, can face a maximum of five years in prison.

Critics of the law called it sexist.