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PJ furniture factory near LDP goes up in flames, finally put out by 44 firefighters and 14 fire engines The penal code introduced in the 19th century during British colonial rule of India explicitly states that “sexual acts by a man with his own wife... is not rape”. “A husband certainly does not have any fundamental right to violate the consent of his wife,” the affidavit said, according to“However, attracting the crime in the nature of ‘rape’ as recognised in India to the institution of marriage can be arguably considered to be excessively harsh.”The government’s statement said that marital rape was adequately addressed in existing laws, including a 2005 law protecting women from domestic violence.
Six per cent of Indian married women aged 18-49 have reported spousal sexual violence, according to the government’s latest National Family Health Survey conducted from 2019 to 2021. Divorce remains taboo across much of India with only one in every 100 marriages ending in dissolution, often owing to family and social pressure to sustain unhappy marriages.
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