The Supreme Court will hear pleas on Tuesday regarding whether a husband should be immune from prosecution for raping his adult wife. The c...

The Supreme Court has sought the Centre's response on a petition challenging the marital rape exception under new criminal laws. A bench he...

The Madhya Pradesh High Court ruled that unnatural sex with a wife isn't rape under the IPC, regardless of consent. Justice G S Ahluwalia's...

The Supreme Court will examine whether a husband enjoys immunity from prosecution for the offence of rape if he forces his wife, who is not...

The petition filed by NGO Purush Aayog Trust through its president Barkha Trehan has sought the court's intervention in a batch of petition...

The bench permitted the Centre time till February 15 to file its counter and posted the matter for resumed hearing on March 21. In Septembe...

The court ruled that under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, the definition of rape must include marital rape. Experts said this ob...

While Justice Rajiv Shakdher, who headed the division bench, favoured striking down the marital rape exception, Justice C Hari Shankar said...

A bench of Justices Rajiv Shakdher and C Hari Shankar had reserved its judgement on February 21 on the petitions seeking to strike down the...

The high court in its order on marital rape said that the age old thought and tradition that the husbands are the rulers of their wives, th...

Justice Rajiv Shakdher, who is heading the bench dealing with a batch of petitions challenging the legality of the marital rape exception i...

The court questioned as to why the exception from the offence of rape granted to a married couple had remained in the legislature for sever...

The fact that other countries, mostly Western, have criminalised marital rape does not necessarily mean India should also follow them blind...

This is in contradiction to the government's stand that marriage in the country is a sacrament and hence the concept of marital rape cannot...

Two retired judges -- S N Dhingra and R S Sodhi -- of the Delhi High Court said it will trigger misuse of law by women to settle scores.

The decision is significant as the three-member expert committee headed by JS Verma had recommended that marital rape be considered a crimi...

The new law has shied away from making marital rape an offence as long as the couple lived in the same house.