The Supreme Court is hearing a batch of petitions that call for making marital rape a criminal offence. Presently, the Indian ...

Follow The Hindu’s live updates as CJI D.Y.Chandrachud will hear petitions related to marital rape exception in rape offences ...

As the Supreme Court begins hearing petitions seeking the criminalisation of marital rape, The Hindu decodes the legal ...

The Supreme Court examines whether removing immunity for husbands in marital rape cases would create a new offense, sparking ...

If we strike down the marital rape exception, those acts will fall within the category of offences. Will we be creating a new ...

The Indian Supreme Court deliberates on the constitutional validity of Exception 2 under Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday commenced hearing on petitions seeking to criminalise marital rape in India and made it clear ...

Her wedding night in India three years ago at age 18 brings back painful memories of being forced to have sex with her husband. But under the country's law, it's not marital rape if the wife is at ...

AIDWA, in its plea had said that the exception allowed to marital rape is destructive and in opposition to the object of rape laws, which clearly ban sexual activity sans consent. It places the ...

Centre said in the fast-growing and ever-changing social and family structure, misuse of the amended provisions can also not ...

Criminalizing marital rape would be “excessively harsh,” the Indian government has said, in a blow to campaigners ahead of a ...

The top court today commenced hearing pleas seeking criminalisation of marital rape by striking down an exception under the ...