Citing to the misuse of dowry law, the Central government on Tuesday reportedly urged the Supreme Court not to criminalise Marital Rape, as it might cause damage to the ‘institution of marriage’. Responding to a petition filed by RIT foundation, the center reportedly said, “Criminalising marital rape might become a tool to harass husbands”. While many countries have already criminalised marital rape, India still follows section 375 of IPC, which says “sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under 15 years of age, is not rape”.
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