Women live-in partners to get maintenance under Gujarat's new UCC bill; 50-50 kids' liability also proposedGujarat Live-in Relationship Rules: The Gujarat cabinet has ratified the Gujarat Uniform Civil Code (UCC), 2026 Bill, which mandates the re...
19 Mar, 2026, 04.21 PM IST
Warts & all, marriage as choice for allThe 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...
17 Oct, 2023, 11.24 PM IST
View: UCC is a chance to set free DDLJ's Simran and respect Ramayan's KaikeyiPersonal laws, such as those related to marriage and divorce, treat women as powerless and in need of protection. Concepts like stridhan an...
01 Sep, 2023, 01.10 PM IST
Children cannot be called illegitimate, even if they are born out of non-marital relationships: NCW ChairpersonNational Commission for Women (NCW) Chairperson Rekha Sharma has stated that children born out of non-marital relationships must not be cal...
13 Jul, 2023, 03.23 PM IST
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...
11 May, 2022, 06.32 PM IST
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...
10 May, 2022, 07.44 PM IST
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...
30 Jan, 2022, 04.04 PM IST
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...
17 Jan, 2022, 08.04 PM IST
Irrespective of marital status, every woman has right to say no to non-consensual sex: HCThe 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...
11 Jan, 2022, 10.13 PM IST
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...
11 Jan, 2022, 12.26 PM IST
Can money buy love? Turns out, your partner's finances matterA partner's finances may begin to matter in a relationship long before the wedding bells ring.
04 Apr, 2018, 06.08 PM IST
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...
11 Mar, 2018, 11.37 AM IST
Women more likely than men to initiate divorceWomen are more likely than men to initiate divorce, but they are no more likely than men to initiate breakups in a dating relationship, say...
23 Aug, 2015, 05.26 PM IST
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.
02 May, 2015, 12.14 PM IST
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.
04 Feb, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
- Pre-marital sex, live-in not crimes, rules apex court
SC dismissed 23 cases against actor Kkushboo, saying pre-marital sex is not a crime.
30 Apr, 2010, 02.42 AM IST
- Mistress can't be booked for cruelty to wife: HC
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...
24 Apr, 2008, 04.15 AM IST