Gujarat Live-in Relationship Rules: The Gujarat cabinet has ratified the Gujarat Uniform Civil Code (UCC), 2026 Bill, which mandates the re...

The Supreme Court in India has stated that it is not the role of the judiciary to expand the definition of marriage to include same-sex cou...

Personal laws, such as those related to marriage and divorce, treat women as powerless and in need of protection. Concepts like stridhan an...

National Commission for Women (NCW) Chairperson Rekha Sharma has stated that children born out of non-marital relationships must not be cal...

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 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...

A partner's finances may begin to matter in a relationship long before the wedding bells ring.

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...

Women are more likely than men to initiate divorce, but they are no more likely than men to initiate breakups in a dating relationship, say...

The Centre's stand against making marital rape a criminal offence saw legal bigwigs take a divided stand.

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

SC dismissed 23 cases against actor Kkushboo, saying pre-marital sex is not a crime.

The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay high court has ruled that a woman having an extra-marital affair with a married man cannot be booked und...