Prayagraj: Observing that marital rape cannot be considered an offence if the wife is above 18 years of age, the Allahabad high court acquitted a person accused of committing ‘unnatural offence’ ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Bhopal, Sep 23 (IANS) Congress MLA Umang Singhar has got a major relief as the Madhya Pradesh High Court quashed an FIR against him filed by his wife for unnatural sex. The court ruled ...

The Allahabad High Court observed that "protection of a person" from being charged in "marital rape continues in cases where the wife is of 18 years of age or more". The court also cited the judgment ...

Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) says that rape includes all kinds of sexual assault involving 'nonconsensual' intercourse with a woman(HT_PRINT) The Madhya Pradesh High Court has observed ...

NEW DELHI: The union government has told the Delhi high court that just because other countries, mostly western, have criminalised marital rape does not necessarily mean India should follow them ...

NEW DELHI: The Centre is likely to inform the Delhi High Court on Monday whether it wishes to withdraw its earlier affidavit in which it had submitted that marital rape cannot be made a criminal ...

The Supreme Court on Friday sought the Centre's response to the pleas arising out of the Delhi High Court's split verdict on the issue of criminalisation of marital rape. A bench of Justices Ajay ...

Delhi Lieutenant-Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena has sent a proposal to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) recommending that a man having non-consensual sex with his married wife aged between 15 and 18 ...

The court noted that the exclusion of marital rape from the penal provision for rape (Exception 2 to Section 375 of the IPC) cannot be absolute, and that such exception is “regressive” The Karnataka ...

The verdict was delivered by a single judge bench of the Chhattisgarh High Court. (Photo Credit: High Court of Chhattisgarh) The Chhattisgarh High Court has ruled that the act of a husband having ...

The Centre is likely to inform the Delhi High Court on Monday whether it wishes to withdraw its earlier affidavit in which it had submitted that marital rape cannot be made a criminal offence as it ...