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 ...

A recent Madhya Pradesh High Court decision has revived a long under-examined question: can the marital rape exception under Section 375 IPC be used to defend a husband from prosecution ...

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 ...

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 Supreme Court on Thursday said that the reading down of a provision in the Indian Penal Code that allows a man to man to have a sexual relationship with his wife, even if she was between 15 to 18 ...

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 ...