<span style="color: #222222;">The Supreme Court today reserved its verdict on pleas challenging the constitutional validity of the penal law on adultery.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra said, it would pass orders, after Additional Solicitor General (ASG) Pinky Anand, appearing for the Centre, concluded her arguments.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Earlier, the bench asked the Centre, what public good, the penal law on adultery served as it provided that no offence would be made if the husband of a woman approves an adulterous relationship. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The ASG had commenced her arguments by saying that adultery has been made an offence by keeping in mind the sanctity of marriage as an institution</span><br />''