A Reddit user has highlighted a concerning trend in hiring practices where candidates are asked about their marital status, with those who ...

The Supreme Court of India queries if criminalizing marital rape may destabilize the institution of marriage, with the CJI-led bench explor...

The Centre has opposed making marital rape a criminal offense, stating it could disrupt marriages. The Supreme Court is reviewing petitions...

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has ruled that adults in live-in relationships must be protected from threats, regardless of their marita...

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 Delhi High Court has questioned the exclusion of single, unmarried women from accessing the surrogacy procedure under the new Surrogacy...

A bench of Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma and Justice Subramonium Prasad was hearing a plea challenging the restriction on married ind...

The court ruled that under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, the definition of rape must include marital rape. Experts said this ob...

While Justice Rajiv Shakdher, who headed the division bench, favoured striking down the marital rape exception, Justice C Hari Shankar said...

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 court questioned as to why the exception from the offence of rape granted to a married couple had remained in the legislature for sever...

Courts usually order restitution of conjugal rights to force warring couples to get along.

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

Report said that marriage or any other intimate relationship between a man and a woman is "not a valid" defence against sexual crimes like ...