Tag: Rape Law

SC criminalises sex with minor wife aged between 15 and 18 yrs

New Delhi: The Supreme Court today criminalised sex with minor wife aged between 15 and 18 years, saying the exception in the rape law was arbitrary and was violative of the Constitution. Section 375 of the IPC, which defines the offence of rape, has an exception clause that says intercourse or sexual act by a […]

  • Tuesday, 29 June 2021
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