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

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...

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...

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...

Women and child development minister Maneka Gandhi said on Tuesday the Centre was considering criminalizing marital rape.

Replying to a question on whether there is an attempt to push for criminalisation of marital rape, Maneka Gandhi said, "Now there is".

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

This is in contradiction to the government's stand that marriage in the country is a sacrament and hence the concept of marital rape cannot...

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...

The new law has shied away from making marital rape an offence as long as the couple lived in the same house.