Marriage as a licence to rape
Live-in relationships may be viewed as temporary and immoral, but funnily enough, our legal system and policing methods give women in live-in relationships, and not marriage, better rights.Po-TTI
2014-11-14
Compiled by Ruwan Laknath Jayakody and R.A. Sooriyakumar
Agnus Dei. The Lamb of God. The lamb in this case signifying innocence and corruption amidst the silence of God. God in this case, notwithstanding the Christian connotations, embodying the godlike reverence that the values of justice in its myriad forms of ethics, rationality, law, equality and fairness pertaining to fundamental rights and civil liberties,
45 Marital Rapes Per Day
PRIYANKA RATH is a 5th year law student at Symbiosis Law School, Pune.
Priyanka Rath seeks to bring out the laws regarding rape in India while concentrating on the position of marital rape and its recognition as an offence by the system and the attitude of the society and the judiciary towards marital rape.
Marital Raperefers to unwanted intercourse by a man with his wife obtained by force, threat of force, or physical violence, or when she is unable to give consent. Marital rape could be by the use of force only, a battering rape or a sadistic/obsessive rape. It is a non-consensual act of violent perversion by a husband against the wife where she is physically and sexually abused.
