The Supreme Court said that marital
rape can’t be considered as criminal act, and said that man forcibly having sex
with his wife above 15 years of age is not marital rape, due to an exception in
Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) rape law, and also asked the Centre
to provide data on the number of Child Marriage Prohibition Officers, appointed
under the Child Marriage Prohibition Act, 2006 as well as the number of
prosecutions that have been instituted over the last three years under the Act.
DECCAN
CHRONICLE NEWSPAPER
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