MARTITAL RAPE: A REFORM IN THE NATURE OF THE PUNISHMENT. A COMPARATIVE STUDY WITH REFERENCE TO INDIA AND U.S.A AND U.K.
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Humanity stands on two pillars, men and women, they should have equal importance and role in its development and growth, but women have always been subjected to a lot of humiliation by man, rape is an appropriate atrocities committed against the dignity of women. The word 'rape' has been primarily derived from the Latin term raptus which literally refers to the act done by one man for damaging or destroying the property of another man. Here, property primarily referred to wife or daughter of another man. The offence of rape is one of the most gruesome and barbarous crimes perpetrated against women. Marital rape though not defined as a crime, in India it is one of the most debatable issue. Women have been treated as an object of pleasure since time immemorial. They have been victims of crimes like rape, sodomy, sexual harassment, female infanticide etc. Rape is a crime due to which women all over the world are suffering. Other countries like U.S.A. and U.K. have tried their best in making laws for the protection of women. India is focusing on protection and prevention of crimes against women bit fails to protect a married women from her rapist who is her husband, by not having any legal provisions acknowledging marital rape as a crime. The research paper submits the reason regarding the failure of law in India by not defining marital rape a crime and consequences and also reform in the nature of the punishment of the same.
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