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  UK MP Kate Kniveton breaks silence on years of marital abuse: 'Raped me while I slept, kicked me out

  World | July 21, 2025 18:10 IST

  Former UK MP Kate Kniveton has publicly revealed years of physical, sexual, and emotional abuse by her ex-husband and fellow MP Andrew Griffiths. She alleged he raped her while she slept, verbally abused their infant daughter, and continued to harass her even after their separation.

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  SC on marital rape says will decide constitutional validity of laws granting immunity to husbands

  India | October 17, 2024 17:10 IST

  Marital rape: While hearing the matter, a bench of Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud and Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra sought views of the petitioners on Centre's contention that making such acts punishable would severely impact the conjugal relationship.

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  Marital rape not an offence if wife is 18 or above: Allahabad High Court

  Uttar Pradesh | December 09, 2023 22:12 IST

  Allahabad High Court on marital rape: The Allahabad High Court, endorsing a previous observation of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, also stated that there is no place for any unnatural offence (as per IPC Section 377) to take place in a marital relationship.

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  Sultan of Delhi's Mehreen Pirzada SLAMS trolls for calling her marital rape sequence a sex scene

  October 17, 2023 16:47 IST

  Mehreen Pirzada made her OTT debut with the Disney+Hotstar series Sultan of Delhi. She opened up about one of her scenes depicting marital rape and gave a befitting reply to trolls.

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  Marital rape case: Does husband enjoy immunity from prosecution? SC to examine legal issue

  India | July 19, 2023 17:13 IST

  Chief Justice DY Chandrachud said a three-judge bench will mull over if husbands enjoy immunity from prosecution in marital rape cases.

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  'File response by Feb 15', SC to Centre in criminalisation of marital rape case

  India | January 16, 2023 12:24 IST

  A bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and comprising justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala asked the Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the Centre, to file the counter affidavit in the matter on or before February 15, 2023.

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  Year ender 2022: Path-breaking judgments passed by Supreme Court in favour of women

  India | December 20, 2022 13:56 IST

  Year ender 2022: This year turned out to be full of positives for women as the Supreme Court took several important decisions in their favour. Read below to know the list of path-breaking decisions that the top court took this year.

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  Marital rape: SC to hear on Sep 16 pleas arising out of Delhi HC's split verdict

  India | September 09, 2022 16:30 IST

  The high court on May 11 delivered a verdict with one of the judges favoring striking down the exception in the law that grants protection to husbands from being prosecuted for non-consensual sexual intercourse with their wives, the other refused to hold it unconstitutional.

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  Marital rape: Plea filed in Supreme Court against Delhi High Court's split verdict

  India | May 17, 2022 10:33 IST

  The Delhi High Court had earlier delivered a split verdict on petitions demanding the criminalisation of marital rape.

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  Continuance of marital rape exception egregiously problematic: Justice Shakdher

  India | May 12, 2022 1:15 IST

  Justice Shakdher asserted that the fact that the rapist is the husband of the victim does not make the act of sexual assault any less injurious, degrading, or dehumanizing and emphasized that marital rape leaves not only physical scars but also “much deeper scars on the psyche of the victim”.

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  Delhi High Court delivers split verdict on pleas seeking to criminalise marital rape

  India | May 11, 2022 17:04 IST

  The Delhi HC's verdict came on petitioners challenging the constitutionality of the marital rape exception under Section 375 IPC.

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  In significant order, Karnataka HC says man can't escape trial for rape of wife

  India | March 23, 2022 23:58 IST

  The age-old regressive thought that the husbands are the rulers of their wives, their body, mind and soul should be effaced, a single bench of Justice M Nagaprasanna said while refusing to drop the charge of rape against the petitioner who had allegedly sexually assaulted his wife.

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  International Women's Day 2022: Why is marital 'rape' still not criminalized in India?

  India | March 08, 2022 8:00 IST

  Marital rape refers to sexual intercourse with one's spouse, without consent. In India, Exception 2 to Section 375 protects husbands from getting charged by their wives on charges of rape.

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  Delhi HC refuses to grant more time to Centre to state stand on pleas to criminalise marital rape

  India | February 21, 2022 17:01 IST

  A bench of Justices Rajiv Shakdher and C Hari Shankar said it was not possible to adjourn an ongoing matter as there is no terminal date by when the Centre's consultations will be over on the marital rape issue.

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  Centre may tell HC if it wishes to withdraw stand opposing criminalisation of marital rape

  India | January 30, 2022 16:18 IST

  A bench of Justices, which has been conducting marathon hearings on a batch of petitions seeking criminalisation of marital rape, will also hear rejoinder submissions on behalf of petitioners on Monday.

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  Any act of rape punishable but marital relationship qualitatively different, says Delhi HC

  India | January 10, 2022 20:20 IST

  Justice C Hari Shankar, who formed part of the division bench hearing a batch of petitions seeking criminalisation of marital rape, orally observed that a non-marital relation, no matter how close, and a marital relationship cannot be “parallelised”.

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  Marital rape good ground to claim divorce, rules Kerala HC; says time to revamp marriage law

  India | August 07, 2021 10:33 IST

  The Kerala High Court bench of Justice A Muhamed Mustaque and Justice Kauser Edappagath said time has come to recast marriage law of the country.

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  HC declines plea to direct Centre to make marital rape a ground for divorce

  India | July 09, 2019 14:22 IST

  The Delhi High Court on Tuesday declined to entertain a plea seeking direction to the Centre to frame guidelines for registration of FIR for marital rape as also laws for making it a ground for divorce.

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  Marriage doesn't mean wife always ready for sex: Delhi High Court on marital rape

  India | July 18, 2018 9:45 IST

  A bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and C Hari Shankar said that in a relationship like marriage, both man and woman have a right to say 'no' to physical relations.

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  Marital rape not an offence, says Gujarat High Court

  India | April 02, 2018 21:38 IST

  The court made these observations in a case pertaining to a lady doctor's complaint of rape and physical harassment against her husband, who too happens to be a medical professional.