The bench, which included Justices P.S. Narasimha and J.B. Pardiwala, asked the Union government to file its counter-affidavit by February 15 and posted the matter for further hearing to March 21...
It will also remove the discrepancy between the POCSO Act, which is applicable to offences against anyone up till 18 years and prevailing provisions of IPC...
Under 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...
In classifying a husband’s ‘conjugal right’ to have sex with his wife against her will, the judgement fails to acknowledge the woman’s right to refuse participation in sexual activity...