Issuing a slew of directions for the effective implementation of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006, the Supreme ...

Supreme Court debates the criminalization of marital rape, questioning the legal protections that allow husbands to force sex ...

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 will rule on the constitutional validity of laws exempting husbands from marital rape charges. The court ...

The Supreme Court is set to hear pleas challenging the legal stance on marital rape. Central to the hearing is whether a husband should face punishment for non-consensual sex with his wife who is not ...

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

The interior ministry filed an affidavit stating marital rape be treated more leniently than rape committed outside marriage ...

Pearson was identified as a suspect in the two rape cases after cold case detectives submitted evidence from the April 1981 case to the Combined DNA Index System, otherwise known as CODIS ...

It highlighted that for the "preservation of the marital institution" and because of the position marriage has in "our socio-legal milieu," "it would not be appropriate for this court to strike down ...

MUMBAI — India’s government has asked the country’s top court not to toughen criminal penalties against marital rape during an ongoing case brought by campaigners seeking to outlaw it. The penal code ...