SC on Thursday began scrutinising petitions seeking to criminalise a husband’s sexual acts with his non-consenting wife by challenging the validity of the exception of marital rape from the offence of rape in Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita and its predecessor, IPC, on the ground that women have an inviolable right to say no to sex in…
Demolition of unauthorised portions of the Subhani mosque located on Dharavi’s 90 feet road in Mumbai was started by the mosque authorities on Monday. (Image credit: X/@KiritSomaiya) MUMBAI: Demolition of unauthorised portions of the Subhani mosque located on Dharavi’s 90 feet road in Mumbai was started by the mosque authorities on Monday.BMC’s G-North ward had…
NEW DELHI: Suraj Revanna, JD(S) MLC and brother of Prajwal Revanna, has been given bail by a Karnataka court in an alleged sexual abuse case.People’s representative court on Monday gave conditional bail to Revanna charged under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).Suraj Revanna was arrested by the Hassan police on June 23 for…
JAIPUR: Rajasthan filed a special leave petition in Supreme Court Monday, asking to be made party to a case pertaining to the constitutional validity of marital rape being treated as an exception under Section 375 of the IPC. The BJP govt’s petition cites a heap of marital-rape cases in the desert state as the reason…
