New Delhi [India], May 10 (ANI): The Delhi High Court is scheduled to pass judgement on Wednesday on several petitions related to criminalisation of marital rape. The bench of justices Rajiv Shakdher and C. Hari Shankar had kept the order reserved in February this year.
Kannur (Kerala) [India], April 10 (ANI): CPI (M) Central Committee member M C Josephine passed away on Sunday. Josephine died of cardiac arrest when she was here to attend the function of the 23rd party congress.
New Delhi [India], January 25 (ANI): The sexual intercourse between husband and wife in a marital relationship cannot be labelled as rape but at the worst, it can be called sexual abuse only, advocate RK Kapoor said while opposing the petition demanding criminalisation of marital rape in Delhi High Court today.
New Delhi [India], January 24 (ANI): The Centre on Monday informed the Delhi High Court that it is consulting with several stakeholders and therefore will need more time on issues relating to various pleas demanding criminalization of marital rape.
New Delhi [India], January 20 (ANI): Senior advocate on Thursday while assisting Delhi High Court hearing on a batch of petitions demanding criminalisation of marital rape said that exception must be viewed as an instrument of oppression.
New Delhi [India], January 12(ANI): Amicus Curiae Rajshekhar Rao on Wednesday told the Delhi High Court that the law does not consider it as rape when a woman is sexually assaulted by her loved one but the same is considered a sexual offence when a stranger forces himself on her.
New Delhi [India], January 10 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Monday raised differences between marriage with other relationships and opined that this qualitative difference may have played a part in the exception provided under Section 375 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code.
New Delhi [India], December 19 (ANI): Most women's rights activists have welcomed the Centre's move to increase the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21 years, but a few said that this step alone would not empower women and several others were needed.