Legal Status of Marital Rape in India
-By Taniya Adhikary Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), 1860, enumerates rape and outlines its exceptions. Exception 2 to Section 375 read: “Sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under fifteen years of age, is not rape.” The section legalizes spousal husbands from legal consequences for non-consensual…
