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Below The Belt | 10-minute read
Let’s get real. Family values are a joke. Wives in India are treated as slaves. For sex and more.
Only 36 countries in the world have still not criminalised marital rape. India really needs to get out of this list which houses, among others, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Domestic violence is such an integral part of women who come from lower-income families that it takes a brave one to take a stand or snap.
If this survey report does not serve the purpose of a wake-up call, we have little hope.
Marital rape is not recognised by law. So, eventually the divorce was granted on grounds of irretrievable breakdown of marriage.
Sushma’s story left me bewildered.
Law is never the only solution. It needs to be supported by the people and the society.
The ridiculous exception under Section 375, IPC has been removed, but we need to take consent within adults in marriage seriously as well.
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The apex court’s judgment puts in place a uniform system to deal with cases of child sexual abuse.
Now, a marriage irrespective of religion cannot be consummated if the wife is a minor.