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‘No mini-trial’: Delhi High Court refuses to quash FIR against man accused of attempting to push wife into flesh trade

February 10, 2026 12:32 pm

Attempted flesh trade case: The plea before the Delhi High Court was submitted by a man accused of sexually assaulting his wife and engaging in unnatural acts.

Intimacy is normal between every married couple, however, the same has to be a consensual and mutually respectful act, the Gujarat High Court said.

‘No default consent in marriage, law recognises bodily freedom’: Gujarat High Court junks man's plea in wife's 'rape' case

January 14, 2026 2:20 pm

Marital Rape Case and Law: Justice Divyesh A Joshi refused to grant anticipatory bail to the man accused of sexually and physically assaulting his estranged wife.

Shashi Tharoor writes: The marital rape exception in criminal law is a colonial relic. It needs to go

December 18, 2025 8:24 am

Resistance often stems from a deeply ingrained, old-fashioned patriarchal attitude — the notion that a woman’s identity, especially within the confines of marriage, is secondary to that of her husband and the sanctity of the family unit

'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.