Some years back, I was sucked into the labyrinth of Indian Matrimonial laws and a false 498a in particular. To be fair, before it hit me, it was difficult for me to fathom the wide spread misuse of dowry laws and specially 498a in India.
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Marital Rape – Marriage, Sex and My Choice Marital Rape is defined as an act of sexual intercourse with one’s spouse without the consent of the other spouse. It is quite a recent phenomenon that has caught the Western world’s fancy. Till the 1970s, very few countries considered marital Rape as a crime, and now talks […]
How is Consensual Sex converted to Rape? Many Indians accept that rape laws should not be used to manage personal relations, particularly in situations where women have agency and are entering into a relationship by choice and consent. Many in the judiciary, too, seem to share this opinion and, that to some extent, explains why […]
Would Removing Exception 2 from the Rape Law Benefit Indian Women? Sec 375 of the IPC (Rape: Proposed Section 63 of The Bharariya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023) mentions rape as “sexual intercourse with a woman against her will, without her consent, by coercion, misrepresentation or fraud, or at a time when she has been intoxicated or […]