The Delhi HC declined to entertain a-plea-seeking direction to the Centre to frame-guidelines for registration of FIR for marital-rape as also laws for making it a ground for divorce. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice C Hari-Shankar disposed of the PIL saying court cannot direct framing of laws as it is the domain of the legislature and not the judiciary.

A woman has been booked for plotting the murder of her husband in Greater-Noida after he refused to give her a divorce, police said today. The body of man, Rupendra Singh Chandel, was found with gun shot wounds inside his car on April-28 near Gaur City, they said. "She had also offered to pay Rs.3-lakh to Omvir Singh for the job," police official said.

The argument allegedly began over a-bottle-of bath-soap and ended with Elaine Rigas's then-husband lunging at her throat. As she held their 1-year-old son in bathtub, Rigas said, she feared that man would strangle her to death. After the violent-outburst, which Rigas said was one of many-over the years, Rigas filed for a-civil-protection order and divorce, hoping to end the abusive relationship as-soon-as she could.