CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENTS
- February 3, 2022
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
- Category: DPN Topics
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CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENTS
TOPIC: Indian Polity
Context- The government has started the process of comprehensive amendments to criminal laws in response to a question on marital rape.
Concept-
- Various petitions have sought striking down of the exception to Section 375 of the IPC, which says forcible sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his own wife, the wife not being 18 years, is not rape.
- Section 3 of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005 provides a definition for domestic violence, which includes physical, sexual, verbal and emotional abuse.
- The National Family Health Survey-4 (2015-16) shows that 7% of ever-married women experienced spousal sexual violence.
- Among ever-married women aged 15-49 who have ever experienced sexual violence, 83% report their current husband and 9% report a former husband as perpetrators.
- However it is difficult to prove when a woman had consented to sexual intercourse and when she had withdrawn her consent.