Tag: marital rape
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Marital Rape Law in India
By Kartavi Satyarthi, National Law University, Jodhpur. “…… Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution…..” ~ British philosopher and political activist Bertrand Russell Rape per se is an offence against women, violating her dignity and self-respect and…
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Marital Rape: The Indian Scenario
By Aparna Menon, Government Law College, Mumbai. Marital rape, a contemporary term which means sexual perversion extended by the husband on to his wife without her consent in the due course of their legal marriage. It is non consensual intercourse obtained by the man with his wife through force, threat of force, violence in case…