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Opinion | Who's Afraid Of Criminalising Marital Rape?
The exception of marital rape is not only a legal anomaly; it is a profound injustice that violates a womans constitutional rights of personal liberty, equality, and dignity.
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36 Days Review: SonyLiv’s Murder Mystery Starring Purab Kohli, Neha Sharma Is Overstretched and Predictable
36 Days, SonyLiv’s latest crime series, falls prey to the classic mistake of stuffing unnecessary tropes in thrillers, just to add more faces to point the misdirected finger at. A lot happens — police chases, raids, lavish parties, therapy sessions, marital discord — but nothing feels essential to the central storyline and fails to elicit the...
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OTT Releases This Week: The Boys Season 4, Gaanth Chapter 1, Do aur Do Pyaar, and More
Rap artists Badshah, Divine and Karan will feature on The Great Indian Kapil Show this week
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Upset With Judge, Kerala Man Fighting Divorce Case Smashes His Car
A family court judge's vehicle was badly damaged near Thiruvalla here by a litigant who was unhappy with the way the marital dispute between him and his wife was being adjudicated, the police said.
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Tamil Nadu Man Sets Wife, 2 Children On Fire, Then Dies By Suicide: Cops
Four people, including two infants, killed on Wednesday after being set on fire following a marital discord in Sellankuppam area in Tamil Nadu, police said.
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Kerala Man Kills Wife On Infidelity Suspicion, Arrested
A man allegedly killed his 25-year-old wife by hitting on her head using a lamp in southern Kerala in the small hours of Tuesday.
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Gujarat School Teacher Sets Self, Wife On Fire Over Affair Suspicion
A 30-year-old school teacher allegedly set himself and his wife on fire inside a taluka panchayat office in Valod town in Gujarat's Tapi district on Tuesday, killing both, police said.
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Marital Rape A Crime Of Cruelty In India: Delhi Government To High Court
The Delhi government on Friday told the Delhi High Court that marital rape is already covered as a crime of cruelty under the Indian Penal Code.
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Sexual Act By Husband Not Rape, Even If By Force: Chhattisgarh High Court
Sex or any sexual act by a husband is not rape even if it involves force, a High Court judge in Chhattisgarh has said in a ruling described as disgraceful and "atrocious" by many.
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Adultery Can Be Result, May Not Be Cause Of Unhappy Marriage: Top Court
The Supreme Court, while striking down the law on adultery on Thursday, said that treating it as an offence would tantamount to punishing people who are unhappy in marital relationships.
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Marital Rape As Crime Will Hit Institution Of Marriage: Centre To Court
Introducing the concept of rape in a marriage will make men vulnerable to harassment by their wives and destabilize the institution of marriage, the government told the Delhi High Court today. The response came following petitions by women's groups who want marital rape to be legally recognized and penalized.
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Man Allegedly Kills Wife For Opposing His Wish For Second Marriage
A 29-year-old man allegedly killed his wife as she refused to allow him to marry another woman over his desperation to have a male child, police said today.
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Kolkata Woman Allegedly Burnt Alive For Not Bringing Dowry
A woman was allegedly burnt to death at her marital house in central Kolkata for not bringing sufficient dowry.
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Opinion: India's Equivalent Of Pak's 'Beat Wives Lightly'
Women of the sub-continent have more in common than their shared pre-partition history. At different moments in the evolution of policy frameworks of their respective nations, women of the sub-continent have found themselves marginalized. They are up against a different Line of Control than the one manned by armies. This is an LOC imposed by men wh...
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Rape law ordinance: Govt rejects JS Verma panel's recommendations on marital rape, review of AFSPA
The government has brought in an ordinance to introduce stricter penalties for crimes against women, including death in extreme cases, but ignored the Justice JS Verma commission's recommendations on criminalising marital rape and reviewing controversial sections of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).
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Opinion | Who's Afraid Of Criminalising Marital Rape?
The exception of marital rape is not only a legal anomaly; it is a profound injustice that violates a womans constitutional rights of personal liberty, equality, and dignity.
-
36 Days Review: SonyLiv’s Murder Mystery Starring Purab Kohli, Neha Sharma Is Overstretched and Predictable
36 Days, SonyLiv’s latest crime series, falls prey to the classic mistake of stuffing unnecessary tropes in thrillers, just to add more faces to point the misdirected finger at. A lot happens — police chases, raids, lavish parties, therapy sessions, marital discord — but nothing feels essential to the central storyline and fails to elicit the...
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OTT Releases This Week: The Boys Season 4, Gaanth Chapter 1, Do aur Do Pyaar, and More
Rap artists Badshah, Divine and Karan will feature on The Great Indian Kapil Show this week
-
Upset With Judge, Kerala Man Fighting Divorce Case Smashes His Car
A family court judge's vehicle was badly damaged near Thiruvalla here by a litigant who was unhappy with the way the marital dispute between him and his wife was being adjudicated, the police said.
-
Tamil Nadu Man Sets Wife, 2 Children On Fire, Then Dies By Suicide: Cops
Four people, including two infants, killed on Wednesday after being set on fire following a marital discord in Sellankuppam area in Tamil Nadu, police said.
-
Kerala Man Kills Wife On Infidelity Suspicion, Arrested
A man allegedly killed his 25-year-old wife by hitting on her head using a lamp in southern Kerala in the small hours of Tuesday.
-
Gujarat School Teacher Sets Self, Wife On Fire Over Affair Suspicion
A 30-year-old school teacher allegedly set himself and his wife on fire inside a taluka panchayat office in Valod town in Gujarat's Tapi district on Tuesday, killing both, police said.
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Marital Rape A Crime Of Cruelty In India: Delhi Government To High Court
The Delhi government on Friday told the Delhi High Court that marital rape is already covered as a crime of cruelty under the Indian Penal Code.
-
Sexual Act By Husband Not Rape, Even If By Force: Chhattisgarh High Court
Sex or any sexual act by a husband is not rape even if it involves force, a High Court judge in Chhattisgarh has said in a ruling described as disgraceful and "atrocious" by many.
-
Adultery Can Be Result, May Not Be Cause Of Unhappy Marriage: Top Court
The Supreme Court, while striking down the law on adultery on Thursday, said that treating it as an offence would tantamount to punishing people who are unhappy in marital relationships.
-
Marital Rape As Crime Will Hit Institution Of Marriage: Centre To Court
Introducing the concept of rape in a marriage will make men vulnerable to harassment by their wives and destabilize the institution of marriage, the government told the Delhi High Court today. The response came following petitions by women's groups who want marital rape to be legally recognized and penalized.
-
Man Allegedly Kills Wife For Opposing His Wish For Second Marriage
A 29-year-old man allegedly killed his wife as she refused to allow him to marry another woman over his desperation to have a male child, police said today.
-
Kolkata Woman Allegedly Burnt Alive For Not Bringing Dowry
A woman was allegedly burnt to death at her marital house in central Kolkata for not bringing sufficient dowry.
-
Opinion: India's Equivalent Of Pak's 'Beat Wives Lightly'
Women of the sub-continent have more in common than their shared pre-partition history. At different moments in the evolution of policy frameworks of their respective nations, women of the sub-continent have found themselves marginalized. They are up against a different Line of Control than the one manned by armies. This is an LOC imposed by men wh...
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Rape law ordinance: Govt rejects JS Verma panel's recommendations on marital rape, review of AFSPA
The government has brought in an ordinance to introduce stricter penalties for crimes against women, including death in extreme cases, but ignored the Justice JS Verma commission's recommendations on criminalising marital rape and reviewing controversial sections of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA).
