{"id":266744,"date":"2022-05-11T13:49:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T08:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=266744"},"modified":"2022-05-11T13:51:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-11T08:21:58","slug":"marital-rape-wife-sexualintercourse-delhi-high-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/05\/11\/marital-rape-wife-sexualintercourse-delhi-high-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Marital Rape will be criminalised or not? Judgment to be pronounced | Stay tuned to know the verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delhi High Court will be soon pronouncing its ruling with respect to a batch of petitions filed asking for striking down marital rape to be an exception under the Penal Code, 1860.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">How can killing your own wife be criminal but indulging in sexual activity without her consent (forcibly) be not a criminal activity?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delhi High Court to decide on Exception 2 to Section 375 of the Penal Code, 1860. (IPC)<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">What does Section 375 Exception 2 state?<\/span><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under fifteen years of age, is not rape.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On 21-2-2022, the Delhi High Court had reserved its order.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[To be updated once Judgment is pronounced]<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Also Read:<\/span><\/h4>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"hECLc7qaXa\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/03\/24\/marital-rape-2\/\">Husband owns wife\u2019s body after marriage: What is holding back India to criminalise this misogyny?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Husband owns wife\u2019s body after marriage: What is holding back India to criminalise this misogyny?&#8221; &#8212; SCC Blog\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/03\/24\/marital-rape-2\/embed\/#?secret=QXU9n5OAEC#?secret=hECLc7qaXa\" data-secret=\"hECLc7qaXa\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi High Court will be soon pronouncing its ruling with respect to a batch of petitions filed asking for striking down marital <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":266747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1188,2],"tags":[42439,3239,2543,12981,29785,42834,42768,21092],"class_list":["post-266744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hot_off_the_press","category-news","tag-consensual-sex","tag-consent","tag-Delhi_High_Court","tag-judgment","tag-law","tag-legal-news","tag-legal-updates","tag-marital-rape"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Marital Rape will be criminalised or not? 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