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 ...

On Wednesday, Justice Rajiv Shakdher favoured striking down the marital rape exception, while Justice C Hari Shankar said the exception under the IPC is not unconstitutional and was based on an ...

Section 375 of IPC: Section 375 of IPC defines rape as a criminal offence and states that a man is said to commit rape when he has sexual intercourse with a woman against her or without her consent or ...

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 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 ...

The Delhi High Court Thursday deliberated upon the challenge raised to the exception under the rape law that protects a husband from prosecution for a non-consensual sexual act with his wife and asked ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...