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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Marital rape-- Process on to amend criminal laws: Government

Marital rape-- Process on to amend criminal laws: Government

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published Published on Feb 2, 2022   modified Modified on Feb 3, 2022

-The Hindu

Smriti Irani warns against condemning every man as a rapist; clarify stand on criminalising marital rape, say Left parties.

The government has started the process of comprehensive amendments to criminal laws, Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani told Parliament on Wednesday in response to a question on marital rape, but warned against condemning every man as a rapist and every marriage as a violent one.

"The Government of India has initiated the process for comprehensive amendments to criminal laws in consultation with all stakeholders," Ms. Irani told the Rajya Sabha in her written response to a question from CPI member Binoy Viswam on whether the Centre had taken a position on inclusion of marital rape as an offence under the Indian Penal Code.

Ms. Irani's comment comes at a time the Delhi High Court is hearing a clutch of petitions seeking criminalisation of marital rape and the government is soon expected to present its arguments. Its lawyers had earlier sought more time to formulate its stand on the ground that the issue needed wider consultations.

The petitions have sought striking down exception to Section 375 of the IPC, which says forceful sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his own wife, the wife not being 18 years, is not rape.

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The Hindu, 2 February, 2022, https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/not-advisable-to-condemn-every-man-as-rapist-women-and-child-development-minister/article38364656.ece?homepage=true


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