POSCO: 'Harassment' turns out Consensual Sex in many cases - ANALYSIS
Unfold Proactive Health Trust, with support from UNICEF India, analysed the 1,715 judgments by Special Courts in Assam, Maharashtra, and West Bengal that entailed an express reference to a romantic relationship between the victim and the accused.
Dec 12, 2022, 23:58 PM IST
Can sexual intimacy between a live-in couple be termed as rape, asks SC
The top court made these observations while hearing a plea of a person accused of rape by a woman, who had been in a live-in relationship with him for over two years. The woman had filed an FIR for rape after the man married another woman.
Mar 02, 2021, 14:22 PM IST
Deep-rooted trauma forces LGBT community to live in fear: SC on Section 377
The SC said that it is because of the family and societal pressures that members of the LGBT community are forced to marry the opposite sex which leads to bi-sexuality and mental trauma.
Jul 12, 2018, 13:00 PM IST
Centre passes the buck on Section 377 to SC, says its validity is up to the wisdom of court
A five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra is hearing a batch of petitions seeking decriminalisation of consensual sex between two adults of the same gender.
Jul 11, 2018, 14:02 PM IST
Avoiding marriage despite physical relation doesn't amount to rape: Court
A recent order passed by a sessions court acquitted a 30-year-old man accused of raping a woman.
Oct 09, 2017, 08:10 AM IST
AAP leader Ashutosh should be made minister of private and consensual sex: Markandey Katju
Sandeep Kumar, arrested on rape charges on the complaint of a woman, was on Monday remanded to three-day police custody by a Delhi court.
Sep 06, 2016, 08:46 AM IST
Web series alert! Informative stuff about sex
A video from a new web series aims at reaching out to the young generation and educate them about consensual sex.
May 17, 2016, 11:57 AM IST
Sex workers 'participating with consent' should not face police action: SC panel
It is believed that a majority of sex workers in India are forced into the trade by poverty.
Feb 15, 2016, 03:03 AM IST
Delhi court frees man of rape charges, terms it 'youthful eagerness'
A Delhi court has acquitted a man of the charges of raping a woman on false pretext of marriage observing that the two, being in the prime of their youth, had consensual intimate relations in "youthful eagerness".
Jan 21, 2016, 22:56 PM IST
