After so many hearings criminalization of ‘Marital Rape’ The Delhi High Court, today rendered a mixed decision on the question of criminalizing marital rape and allowed the parties leave to appeal to the Supreme Court. The following is a history of events surrounding the marital rape exception in criminal law and the subject of its criminalization, which the Delhi High Court parted on Wednesday: 1860: The Indian Penal Code (IPC) is enacted, except for marital rape affecting women over the age of ten. …
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