Actress Celina Jaitly opens up on domestic violence complaint against husband, says she is fighting it without parents, brother or childrenFormer actress Celina Jaitly has filed a domestic violence complaint against her husband, Austrian businessman Peter Haag, accusing him of ...
25 Nov, 2025, 03.00 PM IST
Denial of marital intimacy and alienating child amounts to mental cruelty, says Delhi High Court and grants divorce to husbandMental Cruelty: Wife denied physical relations to husband, pressured him to transfer property in her name; Delhi High Court grants divorce ...
07 Oct, 2025, 09.46 AM IST
Wife watching porn, masturbation not cruelty to husband, says HC rejecting divorce pleaThe Madras high court ruled that a woman's private act of masturbation and watching porn does not constitute cruelty towards her husband. T...
20 Mar, 2025, 10.04 AM IST
Section 498A misuse: Supreme Court gives relief to husband, his girlfriend after wife filed domestic violence and dowry casesSection 498A misuse: Supreme Court cancels FIR against husband and his girlfriend after 5 year fight. The wife alleged her husband and his ...
17 Jan, 2025, 12.57 PM IST
'Where would one go to satisfy sexual urges if not their partner': HC quashes dowry FIRThe Allahabad High Court dismissed dowry charges against Pranjal Shukla. The court found that the allegations were likely driven by persona...
12 Oct, 2024, 12.56 PM IST
Marital rape criminalisation may severely impact institution of marriages in India: GovtThe Centre's affidavit to the court argues that criminalizing marital rape could disrupt conjugal relationships and pose challenges in prov...
04 Oct, 2024, 11.24 AM IST
Wilful denial of sexual relationship by spouse cruelty: Delhi HCThe Delhi High Court has ruled that the wilful denial of a sexual relationship by a spouse amounts to cruelty, upholding a divorce granted ...
18 Sep, 2023, 05.40 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
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
Money & relationships: What are men’s rights in case of separation?Given that women are at the receiving end of most marital and financial problems, it’s no surprise that men in similar situations are often...
24 Feb, 2020, 06.30 AM IST
Supreme Court strikes down Victorian-era adultery lawIf adultery is treated as a crime, there would be immense intrusion into the extreme privacy of the matrimonial sphere and it is better lef...
27 Sep, 2018, 11.46 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
Sex toys for women find more acceptance in Indian societyThe sex narrative in India is fast undergoing a shift as more women are having their say in an estimated Rs 2,500 crore sexual wellness pro...
24 Apr, 2016, 02.57 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