New Delhi, Oct. 11 (PTI & Reuters): Sex with a minor wife aged between 15 and 18 years is rape and the exception in the rape law for married couples was arbitrary, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday ...

New Delhi, Oct 11: The Supreme Court is on Wednesday likely to pronounce its verdict on an exception to the rape law that permits intercourse or sexual act by a man with his wife, not below 15 years.

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday delivered a split verdict on the issue of criminalisation of marital rape and granted liberty to the petitioners to move the Supreme Court on this matter. The Delhi ...

The Centre on Wednesday defended in the Supreme Court a provision in the Indian Penal Code (IPC) that does not penalise a man for forcibly having sex with his wife aged between 15 and 17, saying the ...

New Delhi, Oct 11: The Supreme Court on Wednesday pronounced that intercourse or sexual act by a man with his wife below the age of 18 years will be considered as rape. The verdict came on a plea ...

The Delhi High Court has been told that every day the exception to IPC Section 375 remains on statute books, women are denied the right to call a rape a rape. Putting forward his argument in a case ...

An unprecedented reformist judgement delivered recently by a single-judge bench of the Karnataka high court (HC) effaces the idea of husbands as rulers of their wife’s bodies, souls and minds. The ...