MARITAL RAPE: SORDID REALITY BEHIND CLOSEDOORS
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Marital rape is not criminalized as a rape in India and as well as other countries even though it violates and breaches the rights, trust and dignity of a married woman when it occurs within the four walls of the matrimonial home. It raises a question that, marriage has been treated as the sacrament between husband and wife so does marriage give license for forcing, beating and assaulting wife and also does a married woman can be treated as object or property. Moreover, it raises the question that does marriage gives license to rape a woman even though she refuses to do the sex. This article points out that married women who are raped by their husbands are often suffering severe long-term physical and emotional consequences. Marital rape may be even more traumatic than rape by a stranger. Today we talk about women empowerment in India but did we really mean it as we didn’t criminalize marital rape. This shows the clear influence of patriarchal society in India. The two essential of Rape as defined under Section 375 of IPC, 1860, i.e. without the consent and against the will of a woman.
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