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 ...

Section 375 of IPC: Section 375 of IPC defines rape as a criminal offence and states that a man is said to commit rape when he has sexual intercourse with a woman against her or without her consent or ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...