South Asia favours tough rape laws – but must also eliminate its cultures of sexual violence

Harsh sanctions for perpetrators of rape will not be of much use if the system does not support survivors.

Ntasha Bhardwaj

· May 18, 2021 · 11:30 am

Supreme Court criticises West Bengal, Uttarakhand for naming rape complainants in affidavits

The top court has summoned the officials who filed the documents to the next hearing in the case to explain their mistake.

Scroll Staff

· Mar 27, 2018 · 05:11 pm

Rape laws: Why is sexual violence against India’s transgender community not being taken seriously?

There is yet to be an effective legislation protecting the transgender community from sexual violence.

Ankita Ramgopal

· Mar 03, 2018 · 06:30 pm

Supreme Court dismisses plea seeking to make rape, harassment, stalking gender-neutral

The bench called it an ‘imaginative petition’ and said the laws had ‘provisions for the protection of women and [were] in their favour’.

Scroll Staff

· Feb 02, 2018 · 02:06 pm

Video: Five claims commonly made to argue against the criminalisation of marital rape

Three lawyers explain how the arguments are problematic.

Smitha Nair

· Sep 09, 2017 · 09:00 am

Centre defends law that protects a husband if he rapes his minor wife

The Supreme Court said the exception clause in the IPC only considers a man’s physical intercourse with a girl under the age of 15 rape.

Scroll Staff

· Aug 10, 2017 · 11:24 am

Just last year, Maneka Gandhi had condemned marital rape as unacceptable

The union minister contradicted her own views when she stated in Parliament that marital rape cannot be applied to the Indian context.

Aarefa Johari

· Mar 12, 2016 · 12:00 pm

As government refuses to criminalise marital rape, laws on such assaults remain a muddle

On Wednesday, the minister of state for home affairs claimed that making marital rape a criminal offence would be unsuitable for India.

Aarefa Johari

· Apr 30, 2015 · 11:24 am