Delhi High Court has held that this can amount to offence under Section 69 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, which criminalises sexual intercourse by deceit or on false promise of marriage.
Pock marks from bullets scar the floor and door of Sapna's room in her in-laws' house in Rohtak's Kahni, where marrying within the same village has consequences.
Linking rape to marriage can be considered 'excessively harsh' & 'disproportionate', submits MHA, opposing a batch of petitions seeking to criminalise marital rape in India.
In ‘Who is Equal’, senior Supreme Court lawyer,Saurabh Kirpal, seeks to untangle legal inequalities prevalent in our country in different sectors such as marriage, education, employment, and more.
Dowry Prohibition Act makes exception for gifts given to bride at marriage, and rules have been laid down for making of such lists. Allahabad HC last week stressed importance of the act.
Tabled in Uttarakhand Assembly, Uniform Civil Code Bill also recommends uniform marriage age for men & women across religions. Scheduled Tribes have been excluded from its ambit.
Court made strong remarks as it rejected bail plea of woman accused of abetting daughter-in-law's sexual abuse at the hands of her son, saying she 'played equal role as other accused'.
Karnataka contributes billions to national growth and FDI, but its own finances show a revenue deficit, spiralling interest costs, and liabilities crossing Rs 11.2 lakh crore.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
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