The Supreme Court scheduled to hear pleas concerning the immunity of husbands from prosecution for raping their adult wives. The bench's bu...

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 Delhi High Court has allowed a widow with depression to terminate her 29-week pregnancy, citing mental stability issues. The Supreme Co...

The Supreme Court has announced that it will hear pleas regarding the issue of marital rape in mid-October. The pleas question whether a hu...

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 top court on January 16 had sought a response of the Centre on a batch of petitions pertaining to criminalisation of marital rape.One o...

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...

One of pleas has been filed in relation to the Delhi High Court's split verdict on the issue. This appeal has been filed by Khushboo Saifi,...

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

The Supreme Court has ruled that all women, regardless of their marital status, were entitled to benefits of safe and legal abortion till 2...

The Supreme Court of India said that all women are entitled to safe and legal abortion. The apex court has also ruled that the exclusion of...

However, both the judges --Justice Rajiv Shakdher and Justice C Hari Shankar--on the bench concurred with each other for granting a certifi...

In the judgement, the Supreme Court had observed that "law cannot be hidebound and static. It has to evolve and change with the needs of so...

CJI said he had never asked anyone to marry and never heard a marital rape case and blamed the media for the controversy. “Everything was m...

The Bombay high court had cancelled bail granted by a sessions court to the accused at the complainant’s behest in the first case

The government’s move to revise the legal age of marriage for women, in a bid to curb maternal mortality, may have been triggered by a Supr...

The UPR has a specific format and is not intended to be a naming and shaming exercise, says former United Nations special rapporteur Miloon...