Gender and Sexuality

The Supreme Court critiques multiple High Court judgments for perpetuating misogynistic notions and trivialising sexual violence and child trafficking through legally flawed and insensitive reasoning

Due to a combination of factors, there has been...

On Women’s Day 2025, March 8, we honour the survivors who became warriors - documenting atrocities, challenging power, and demanding justice in the face of unspeakable brutalities

“No God, gods, goddesses, prophets or saints may be invoked to justify the killing and/or terrorising of fellow human beings”.

In contrast to the verdict delivered by Justice Hari Shankar, his brother judge hearing the matter, Justice Shakhder’s judgement in the May 2022 case hearing the constitutional challenge to the exception to marital rape provision under Section 375, strikes it down as anti-constitutional. The matter will now go before the Supreme Court where the constitutional challenge lies pending for two years

One judge of a division bench of the Delhi High Court, Justice C. Hari Shankar, hearing a petition on the crucial issue of marital rape, in 2022, upheld the exception of this form under section 375 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), a reasoning that is also facing constitutional challenge in the Supreme Court for the past two years

Calls on all Muslims, regardless of political and religious differences, to build a culture of tolerance and curiosity for various interpretations of Islam

This piece, penned in rage and with a broken heart as a young student of the law in Mumbai read of the news of the brazen acquittal of a murderer-rapist husband by the Chhattisgarh High Court. As a collective media silence and violent trivia twirls around our public discourse, Sabrangindia publishes this as tribute (and solidarity with) hundreds of thousands of young and not so young women who have felt deeply betrayed by this verdict as also by the wider silence around it

By extending the marital rape exception to unnatural sexual offences, dismissing a dying woman’s testimony, and ignoring Supreme Court precedents, the Chhattisgarh High Court has delivered a judgment that strips married women of their right to bodily autonomy

As Section 498A transitions into Section 85 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the debate over its misuse and necessity continues - can reforms strike the right balance?