MUMBAI — India's government has asked the country's top court not to toughen criminal punishment against marital rape during an ongoing case brought by crusaders seeking to outlaw it.
MUMBAI — India 's government has asked the country's top court not to toughen criminal punishment against marital rape during an ongoing case brought by crusaders seeking to outlaw it.The penal code introduced in the 19th century during British colonial rule of India explicitly states that 'sexual acts by a man with his own wife ... is not rape.
The government's statement said that marital rape was adequately addressed in existing laws, including a 2005 law protecting women from domestic violence.That law recognizes sexual abuse as a form of domestic violence but does not prescribe any criminal penalties to perpetrators.Another section of the penal code punishes broadly defined acts of 'cruelty' by a husband against their wife with prison terms of up to three years.
Asks Top Court To Go Easy On Marital Rape
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