Marital Rape
Delhi HC questions how dignity of married women remains unaffected by marital rape
New Delhi/IBNS: The Delhi High Court has raised a question on how the dignity of a married woman remains unaffected by marital rape, addressing a serious potboiling social topic, media reports said.
A Division Bench of Justice Rajiv Shakdher and C Hari Shankar on Tuesday made the observation while hearing petitions related to the criminalisation of marital rape.
Justice Shakdher questioned Delhi government counsel Nandita Rao as to how rape affects the dignity of an unmarried woman but not of a married women.
He raised the question when the government counsel told the court that a married woman can seek remedy under section 498 A of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
"The relationship cannot put it on a different pedestal. A woman remains a woman," he remarked.
The court is again hearing the matter on Wednesday.
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