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

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...

Justice Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra, while acquitting a husband under section 377 of IPC for allegedly committing 'unnatural sex' with his w...

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 court has also asked the Centre to amend the relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) or bring in new ones criminalizing and ...

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,...

As per Delhi Police sources, Delhi Lt Governor V K Saxena has recommended to the home ministry that non-consensual intercourse with a wife ...

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

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...

Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which defines the offence of rape, has the Exception-2 clause that says the non-consensual inte...

NGO, Men Welfare Trust (MWT), which is opposing the batch of petitions seeking criminalisation of marital rape, had argued that sexual inte...

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

The high court said the rationale and the thrust is that a relationship cannot be put on different pedestal as a woman remains a woman. "Ju...

The SC found no material difference between the definition of rape under Section 375 of the IPC and penetrative sexual assault in terms of ...

The amendment in the rape law came to lime light in 2012 after gang rape case, husband filed a petition accused for committing unnatural se...

The petition stated that marital rape has been criminalised in almost all major common law jurisdictions throughout the world.