Marital Rape Subject : Polity Section: Constitution Concept : The Supreme Court (SC) is going to list a batch of petitions before it that pertain to matters related to ‘marital rape’. Marital Rape Marital rape’ refers to the act of forcible sexual intercourse by a man with his wife without her consent. Issues […]

    Marital Rape Subject – Polity Context – In 2017, the Supreme Court, in Independent Thought v. Union of India, refused to delve into the question of marital rape of adult women while examining an exception to Section 375 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) which allows a man to force sex on […]