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"The institution of marriage does not confer, cannot confer and in my considered view, should not be construed to confer, any special male privilege or a license for unleashing of a brutal beast," the court said.

Notably, the Court has delinked the instant petition from the batch of pleas filed before the Court seeking criminalization of marital rape.

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The high court made the observation while hearing of a batch of pleas seeking to criminalise marital rape.

The Delhi High Court Wednesday said there was an anomaly and misalignment in the erstwhile Section 377 of the IPC and the rape law that protects a husband from prosecution for a non-consensual prosecution for a non-consensual sexual act.

Despite recent verdicts which affirm their rights, trans people in Indian prisons face repeatedly have their rights and privacy violated and their identities disregarded.

For film editor and writer Apurva Asrani, 2020-21 has been a roller coaster ride. He lost several friends to COVID-19, and his 14-year-old relationshi

What they are doing is out of the ordinary. Even though non-straight relationships have been decriminalised in India, they are far from being normalised in most parts of the country

It would do justice to those convicted in the LGBTQ+ community, including Ramchandra Siras

BJP’s opposition to gay marriage reflects Vatican’s puritanical position To this way of thinking, marriage is a sacrosanct institution. Letting it pass into the hands of the ‘perverse’ will only serve to defile the institution. Gay activists dressed as newly wed grooms attend a gay pride parade in Mumbai. | Danish Siddiqui/ Reuters Consequent to the decriminalisation of Section 377 by the Supreme Court in September 2018, a section of the LGBTQIA+ community in India h...