Tag: marital rape india

Law Notes, WRITE-UPS

MARRIAGE: A LICENSE TO RAPE?

Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code exempts Sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under eighteen years of age, is not rape. In India, it is perfectly legal for a man to rape a woman as long as they are married. 

WRITE-UPS

WE ARE HUSBAND-WIFE: MARITAL RAPE AND LAWS

Indian law currently recognises distinct and separate legal identities for husbands and wives, and most of the jurisprudence written in the contemporary age