India's penal code says forced sex between a husband and wife "is not rape." Those challenging that clause say they'll take the fight to the Supreme Court.
India is one of the few countries that does not treat marital rape as a crime, but a high court is mulling over petitions to close that legal loophole.
Hundreds of feminists, democratic groups, academicians, lawyers and activists on Thursday issued an open letter condemning the row over girls wearing hijab in colleges in Karnataka, saying it has become the "latest pretext to impose apartheid on and attack Muslim women". It said the video from Mandya in Karnataka of a saffron-stole-wearing mob of men surrounding a