Calls to criminalise marital rape in India renewed, as judge frees man accused of raping wife


India's Supreme Court is currently hearing several petitions challenging the legal exception for marital rape in India. - Photo: Reuters

NEW DELHI: Back in 2019, a lower Indian court in the central Indian state Chhattisgarh convicted a 40-year-old man of rape and “unnatural sex” with his wife, who died within hours of the alleged assault.

Her husband was held guilty of “culpable homicide not amounting to murder” and sentenced to “rigorous imprisonment” for 10 years.

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