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In India, it is not considered rape if a man forces sex or sexual acts on his wife, as long as she is over 18, due to an exception in a British colonial-era law.
An anti-rape law covering marital rape was passed in 1997. [350] [47] [law 112] Marital rape was explicitly criminalised by the Anti- Violence Against Women and Their Children Act of 2004 (Sec. 3(B)(a),(b)). [law 113] The legality of the marital rape laws was upheld by the Supreme Court in People vs Jumawan G.R. No. 187495 (2014). [351] Poland ...
In India, marital rape is not a criminal offense. India is one of fifty countries that have not yet outlawed marital rape. [40] 20% of Indian men admit to forcing their wives or partners to have sex. [41] Marital rape can be classified into one of three types: [42] Battering rape: This includes both physical and sexual violence. The majority of ...
In 1994, Law 94-89 criminalized marital rape; [79] a second law, passed 4 April 2006, makes rape by a partner (including in unmarried relationships, marriages, and civil unions) an aggravating circumstance in prosecuting rape. [80] Germany outlawed spousal rape in 1997, which is later than other developed countries.
In March, the group, which claims to have 100,000 members, called for “nationwide protests against Marital Rape law and Supreme Court of India,” writing on Twitter – now known as X – that ...
India's government is urging the Supreme Court to reject efforts to update a 160-year-old rape law, arguing it could disrupt "the institution of marriage." India's government formally opposes bid ...
Under Indian law, marital rape is not a crime, [24] [25] except during the period of marital separation of the partners. [26] The Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) considers the forced sex in marriages as a crime only when the wife is below 15. Thus, marital rape is not a criminal offense under IPC. [27]
A marry-your-rapist law, marry-the-rapist law, or rape-marriage law is a rule of rape law in a jurisdiction under which a man who commits rape, sexual assault, statutory rape, abduction or other similar act is exonerated if he marries his female victim, or in some jurisdictions at least offers to marry her. The "marry-your-rapist" law is a ...