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'Godman' Kharat gets 14-day judicial custody in second rape caseNashik court sends self-styled godman Ashok Kharat to judicial custody until April 21. He faces a second rape case involving sexual exploit...- Criminalisation of marital rape: SC questions impact on marriage, petitioner argues it's personal, not institutionalThe Supreme Court of India queries if criminalizing marital rape may destabilize the institution of marriage, with the CJI-led bench explor...
- Marital rape: Will decide constitutional validity of laws granting immunity to husbands, says SCThe Supreme Court of India will review the constitutionality of legal provisions that grant immunity to husbands from prosecution for marit...
- SC to hear pleas on marital rape next weekThe Supreme Court scheduled to hear pleas concerning the immunity of husbands from prosecution for raping their adult wives. The bench's bu...
- Sexual acts with wife, including oral or anal, not a rape, consent not needed: Madhya Pradesh HCThe 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...
- SC to mull over if husbands enjoy immunity from prosecution in marital rape casesThe Supreme Court will examine whether a husband enjoys immunity from prosecution for the offence of rape if he forces his wife, who is not...
- NGO opposes criminalisation of marital rape in SC, says it would destabilise institution of marriageThe petition filed by NGO Purush Aayog Trust through its president Barkha Trehan has sought the court's intervention in a batch of petition...
- Delhi HC delivers split verdict on criminalisation of marital rapeWhile Justice Rajiv Shakdher, who headed the division bench, favoured striking down the marital rape exception, Justice C Hari Shankar said...
- High Court to pronounce on Wednesday verdict on pleas to criminalise marital rapeA bench of Justices Rajiv Shakdher and C Hari Shankar had reserved its judgement on February 21 on the petitions seeking to strike down the...
- Karnataka HC verdict on marital rape draws mixed reaction from petitioners fighting case in Delhi HCSection 375 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which defines the offence of rape, has the Exception-2 clause that says the non-consensual inte...
- Rape is rape, even if committed by husband: Karnataka HC suggests changes in lawThe 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...
- Centre may clarify in HC if it wishes to withdraw stand opposing pleas to criminalise marital rapeNGO, Men Welfare Trust (MWT), which is opposing the batch of petitions seeking criminalisation of marital rape, had argued that sexual inte...
- Clarify stand on marital rape criminalisation: Delhi HC tells CentreJustice Rajiv Shakdher, who is heading the bench dealing with a batch of petitions challenging the legality of the marital rape exception i...
- Any act of rape punishable but marital relationship qualitatively different, says Delhi HCThe court questioned as to why the exception from the offence of rape granted to a married couple had remained in the legislature for sever...
- Marriage doesn't mean consent for sex: Delhi High on marital rapeA 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...
- Why some wives have pinned hopes on this Delhi High Court verdictMany 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...
- Marital rape a crime: Centre wary of misuseThe fact that other countries, mostly Western, have criminalised marital rape does not necessarily mean India should also follow them blind...
- Refusal to criminalise marital rape: Activists, experts differ on issueTwo 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’s stand on marital rape stirs debate among lawyersThe Centre's stand against making marital rape a criminal offence saw legal bigwigs take a divided stand.
- New anti-rape law comes into force but it shies away from making marital rape an offenceThe new law has shied away from making marital rape an offence as long as the couple lived in the same house.
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