Allahabad HC says lackof children despite 3-year-long marriage sparked heated exchange of words like impotent, barren woman, but this does ...

The Supreme Court will consider hearing pleas on whether a husband should have immunity from prosecution for rape if he forces his adult wi...

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 actress is disturbed that several media outlets reduced a brutal marital rape scene to mere titillation.

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

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,...

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...

A bench of Justices Rajiv Shakdher and C Hari Shankar said it was not possible to adjourn an ongoing matter as there is no terminal date by...

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...

A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and C Hari Shankar said that in a relationship like marriage, both man and woman have a right t...

Many other survivors of marital rape are now pinning their hopes of justice on the Delhi High Court, which is hearing a petition filed by t...

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