Tag: PROVISIONS OF MARITAL RAPE UNDER INDIAN LAW

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.