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...

The Delhi high court on May 11, last year had delivered a split verdict on the issue...

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...

Over the years, more than 100 countries have outlawed forced sex in marriage but it continues to enjoy legal sanction in India...

The petitioners had challenged the constitutionality of the marital rape exception under Section 375 IPC (rape) ...

t is not possible to adjourn an ongoing matter as there is no terminal date, says bench Justices Rajiv Shakdher and C Hari Shankar...

Readers write in from Calcutta, Mumbai, Tamil Nadu, Nadia, Ludhiana, Chennai, Coimbatore...

Justice NK Chandravanshi discharges man accused of abuse...