Virender Bhat

Pre-marital sex is "immoral" and against the "tenets of every religion", a Delhi court has said while holding that every act of sexual intercourse between two adults on the promise of marriage does not become rape.

A Delhi court has sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for raping a seven-year-old child, saying the society expects the perpetrator of this crime to be dealt with sternly.

A youth accused of raping and robbing a girl, who later married him, has been acquitted by a Delhi court on the ground that she did not depose about her rape.

Pre-marital sex is "immoral" and against the "tenets of every religion", a Delhi court has said while holding that every act of sexual intercourse between two adults on the promise of marriage does not become rape.

A Delhi court has sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for raping a seven-year-old child, saying the society expects the perpetrator of this crime to be dealt with sternly.

A youth accused of raping and robbing a girl, who later married him, has been acquitted by a Delhi court on the ground that she did not depose about her rape.