![]() | Supreme Court seeks Centre response on marital rapeThe court has sought response from the Centre in pleas against Delhi HC’s split verdict on the issue of criminalisation of marital rape by NGOs Rit Foundation, AIDWA and Khushboo Saifi. |
![]() | SC seeks response of Centre on pleas seeking criminalisation of marital rapeThe Delhi High Court on May 11, last year had delivered a split verdict on the issue. |
![]() | Karnataka govt supports in SC trial of man in marital rape caseThe affidavit was filed in response to a notice issued by the apex court on an appeal by the man against the Karnataka high court judgment. |
![]() | Delhi HC denies anticipatory bail to man for raping woman on false promise of marriageThe woman has said in her complaint that the man physically abused her on the pretext of marriage and when she objected to it, he promised he would marry her. |
![]() | Marital rape still not an offence say activists post SC's abortion ruling"It is a beginning and they should come out with more and more progressive laws on marital rape because it is a reality," said Woman's rights activist and founder of PARI, Yogita Bhayana. |
![]() | What did the Supreme Court say on abortion, marital rape, and 'persons other than cis-women'?The top court said that the provision to cover only married women will render the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act violative of Article 14; here are other key points from its important ruling. |
![]() | Married or single, all women, are entitled to safe, legal abortion, says Supreme CourtAdjudicating an appeal filed by women who wanted to abort after a failed relationship, the bench held that forceful pregnancy of married women can be treated as “marital rape” for abortion. |
![]() | Marital rape: SC to hear pleas on Delhi HC’s split verdict in February 2023The exception given in section 375 of the IPC states that sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his adult wife is not rape. |
![]() | Criminalisation of marital rape: SC all set to hear pleas in February 2023 as it seeks Centre’s responseThe exception given in section 375 of the IPC states that sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his adult wife is not rape. |
![]() | SC set to hear pleas on criminalisation of martial rape on Feburary 2023, seeks centre's response“Leave granted. List matter in February. Issue notice. This position is existing for a long time, we’ll examine it,” the bench of Justices Ajay Rastogi and BV Nagarathna said. |
![]() | Marital rape criminalisation: Appeal filed in SC against Delhi HC's split verdictThe appeal has been filed by Khushboo Saifi, one of the petitioners before the high court which on May 11 had delivered a split verdict on the issue. |
![]() | Split views: What judges said on marital rapeA bench of Justice Rajiv Shakdher and Justice C Hari Shankar delivered a split verdict on petitions seeking criminalisation of marital rape. |
![]() | Split views: What Delhi High Court judges said on marital rapeA bench of Justice Rajiv Shakdher and Justice C Hari Shankar delivered a split verdict on petitions seeking criminalisation of marital rape. |
![]() | 'Disappointing': Activists on Delhi HC verdict on marital rape criminalisationVani Subramanian, a member of the women's group Saheli Trust, questioned that if domestic violence is a crime, then how is marital rape not a crime. |
![]() | Delhi HC delivers split verdict on criminalisation of marital rapeUnder the exception given in Section 375 of the IPC, sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his wife, the wife not being minor, is not rape. |
![]() | Delhi High Court to pronounce verdict on pleas to criminalise marital rapeThe Delhi High Court is scheduled to pronounce on Wednesday its verdict on a batch of pleas seeking the criminalisation of marital rape. |
![]() | SC refuses to stay trial, issues notice in a marital rape caseThe top court refused to stay trial in the case. The matter would be heard in July. |
![]() | Karnataka HC verdict on marital rape draws mixed reaction from petitioners fighting case in Delhi HCThis exception has been under challenge in various petitions filed in the Delhi High Court, which reserved its judgement in the matter in February, and in the Karnataka High Court. |
![]() | Exemption given to husband in cases of 'marital rape' cannot be absolute, says Karnataka HC"If the allegation of rape is removed from the block of offences alleged, it would, in the peculiar facts of this case, be doing tremendous injustice to the wife," said Justice Nagaprasanna |
![]() | Post triple talaq verdict, activists urge Supreme Court to act on Section 377, marital rapeGay rights activist Harish Iyer said the triple talaaq verdict should open people's minds to more progressive laws. |
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