In what will be a landmark pronouncement on a long standing controversy over the marital rape immunity criminalization, a 3-Judge bench of the Supreme Court has expedited the hearing. The issue of criminalization of marital.
When the present government has two reports, including one from the 21st Law Commission at its disposal, one feels compelled to ask: Why has a fresh discussion been stirred up on the issue?
By Sanjeev Sirohi
Without mincing any words and coming straight to the heart of the matter, let me say this from the bottom of my heart that I fully support the burgeoning demand for making marital rape an offence. A rape is a rape. A husband who is supposed to protect his wife and take care of her in all possible respects if himself starts raping his wife must be awarded the strictest punishment and our laws must be suitably amended to make the laws more stricter and most importantly must make marital rape an offence immediately so that it can be checked! The figure of marital rape exceeds all our wildest imagination but never come in the limelight because very few cases are reported and out of them also less than a handful are registered and here too wife is finally cajoled or compelled by her own family members to relent and move ahead to save the so called institution of marriage from being destroyed which our politicians keep citing as a pretext to not making marital rape an o