LEGALITY OF MARITAL RAPE IN INDIA

1) Intro – about it.

2) IPC differentiates between rape within marriage and outside marriage.
3) IPC prohibiting UNCONSENTED SEXUAL CONTACT outside marriage but not within
marriage by a husband.
4) Marital rape law only for girls of or below 15 yrs ( Art 14 violative)
5) Personal laws about marriage
6) Sec 375 IPC vs Protection of women from domestic violence act 2005
7) Difference in countries
8) Changing scenario in current times with feminism (cases showing that women stand on
same pedestal as man in a marriage.(triple talak case as it shows that divorce cannot
happen only by the husbands choice)
9) Graphs with increasing number of cases and cases
10) 3rd gender role ( same sex marriage)
11) marital rape a defense for women to safeguard their dignity or a trap to push their
husbands in it.
12) Verma committee suggesting removal of the exception of marital rape from sec 375 of
IPC
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