“Marriage Shouldn’t Be a Shield: The Constitutional Struggle Against Marital Rape
However, it appears that married women are not included under the term ‘person’, as their right to live with dignity is no longer valued.
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However, it appears that married women are not included under the term ‘person’, as their right to live with dignity is no longer valued.
Nowadays we speak about rape quite normally in our country but what about those crimes done in the silence of night in the name of MARRIAGE.
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.
Indian law currently recognises distinct and separate legal identities for husbands and wives, and most of the jurisprudence written in the contemporary age
As per current law, a wife is presumed to deliver perpetual consent to have sex with her husband after entering into marital relations.