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Govt may clarify stand on marital rape
Updated On: 31 January, 2022 08:24 AM IST | New Delhi | Agencies
Govt’s 2017 affidavit had said that marital rape cannot be made a criminal offence; Delhi HC is hearing a clutch of pleas on it
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Women protest against the alleged gang rape of a 20-year-old woman in Delhi, at Tollygunge in Kolkata on Saturday. Pic/ANI
The Centre is likely to inform the Delhi High Court on Monday whether it wishes to withdraw its earlier affidavit in which it had submitted that marital rape cannot be made a criminal offence as it could become a phenomenon that may destabilise the institution of marriage and an easy tool for harassing husbands.
A bench of Justices Rajiv Shakdher and C Hari Shankar, on January 28, had asked the Centre’s counsel to take instructions on whether it wants to withdraw its 2017 affidavit.
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