The Court said the law presumes a wife’s implied consent for sexual intercourse and sexual acts including anal and oral sex in a marriage. The Delhi High Court has recently held that Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), which criminalize...
Read More
The Court said that any physical relationship of a woman with any person prior to her marriage is not “adultery”. The Patna High Court recently clarified that the term ‘living in adultery‘ under Section 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedu...
Read More
Court observed that the Quran allows polygamy for a fair reason but it has been used by Muslim men for selfish reasons. The Allahabad High Court has held that a Muslim man cannot be prosecuted for bigamy if his multiple marriages were conducted in ac...
Read More
On May 9, the Supreme Court chose not to intervene in the Calcutta High Court‘s ruling, which stated that CCTV cameras cannot be installed in a shared home without the unanimous consent of all residents. A bench consisting of Justices Dipankar ...
Read More
The woman had claimed that her husband pretended to be an eye surgeon but turned out to be an optometrist. In a recent judgment in Rohan & Others v. The State of Gujarat & Others, the Supreme Court of India quashed a case filed by a woman who...
Read More
The Court reasoned that the act may not fall under the definition rape but is a punishable offence under Section 377 IPC. The Allahabad High Court has held that a husband’s non-consensual engagement in unnatural sexual acts with his wife, even ...
Read More
In a judgment delivered by Justice Rakesh Kainthla, the Himachal Pradesh High Court held that Section 31 of the Domestic Violence Act applies solely to penalizing violations of protection orders designed to prevent acts of violence against women, and...
Read More
The High Court ruled that the notices defamed the husband while their divorce case was pending. The Calcutta High Court recently fined a woman ₹1 lakh for publishing two notices in The Telegraph, accusing her husband of intending to remarry while sti...
Read More
JFCM Judge personally meets frail couple outside courtroom in Bodhan, dismisses case after assessing their condition NIZAMABAD: In a heartfelt display of compassion, a magistrate from the Additional Judicial Magistrate of First Class (JFCM) Court in ...
Read More
The judge held that the woman died as a result of prolonged starvation inflicted by her husband and mother-in-law, who deliberately withheld food and medicines from the deceased. A Kerala court has recently sentenced a man and his mother to life impr...
Read More
