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'Sometimes I’d just think let it carry on': UK politician's wife exposes decade of alleged abuse by ex-husband

July 22, 2025 7:22 pm

Kate Kniveton has raised concerns about the family court system in the UK, which she says often fails to protect children.

Delhi HC quashes case against husband, says, 'Law doesn't recognise concept of marital rape'

May 21, 2025 6:03 pm

The High Court noted the wife did not specifically allege if the act was performed against her will or without her consent.

UK man sedates, rapes wife for years, then confesses to her. 5 years later, he was convicted

May 14, 2025 6:26 pm

For years, sleepwalking or illness had explained mornings when the woman woke to find him having sex with her, acts she could never consent to while unconscious.

Zimbabwe court rules against law that denies abortion to marital rape victims, girls below 18

December 03, 2024 5:56 pm

The government did not mount any opposition to the case, which was brought by a women's rights group, although the ruling must still be approved by the Constitutional Court to become effective.

With CJI DY Chandrachud due to retire, SC defers hearing on marital rape pleas

October 24, 2024 1:45 am

The three-judge bench of the Supreme Court is hearing pleas seeking to criminalise marital rape.

Marital rape: Will striking down immunity to husbands create new offence, asks SC

Marital rape: Will striking down immunity to husbands create new offence, asks Supreme Court

October 18, 2024 5:31 am

A three-judge bench presided by CJI D Y Chandrachud and comprising Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra began hearing petitions challenging the exception clause of Section 375 of the IPC, now BNS, under which sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his wife, the wife not being minor, is not rape.

Centre argues against labeling marital rape as 'rape,' says it is 'disproportionate' and 'harsh

October 04, 2024 7:25 am

This is the first time that the government has on record opposed the striking down the marital rape exception.

It’s about time marital rape was criminalised

December 03, 2024 5:54 pm

Opponents of criminalising marital rape including the government argue that it will threaten the ‘sanctity of family life’, claiming it could increase false allegations, disrupt marital harmony and undermine the institution of marriage itself. However, this argument is a smokescreen that ignores the lived realities of countless women

Supreme Court to list marital rape petitions for hearing: What are the issues, arguments involved?

July 20, 2023 10:37 am

IPC Section 375 defines rape and lists seven notions of consent that, if vitiated, would constitute the offence of rape by a man. The crucial exemption is this: “Sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under eighteen years of age, is not rape.”

Three-judge bench to hear pleas relating to criminalisation of marital rape: Supreme Court

July 19, 2023 12:16 pm

The CJI said these matters are to be heard by a three-judge bench and these will be listed up for hearing after the five-judge constitution benches conclude hearing some of the listed cases.