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 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...

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,...

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 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...

The Law Commission, while making its 172nd report on 'Review of Rape Laws' in March 2000, did not recommend criminalisation of marital rape.

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.

Government has concluded that concept of marital rape cannot be applied since marriage is treated as sacrament, or sacred, according to min...

Minister of State for Home, Haribhai Parathibhai Chaudhary has said there is no proposal to bring any amendment to the law for criminalizin...