Law

The Third Eye: Judicial corrective for a social malady

D.C. Pathak | November 17, 2024 10:01 AM

New Delhi: The October 18 order of the Supreme Court on child marriage and the arguments it heard on October 21 in the case about the legal validity of the so-called 'marital rape', are both significant so far as they pertained to a possible intervention of judiciary in matters that weighed in individual's rights against the mandate set by socio-cultural outlook and customs.