On the highly controversial issue of marital rape, the Gujarat High Court passed the judgment that a wife cannot file marital rape complaint against husband in case of non-consensual sex. Justice J B Pardiwala observed that if the wife is older than 18 years of age, then her consent in intercourse does not matter according […]

The Bombay High Court has said that a woman has the right to live in her matrimonial home even if it doesn’t belong to her husband. The High Court relied on the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act to protect a woman whose husband wanted to dispossess her. The husband claims she had barged […]