Marital rape: SC moved against HC's split verdict

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Updated At : 12:05 PM May 18, 2022 IST

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New Delhi, May 17

Six days after the Delhi High Court delivered a split verdict on petitions seeking to declare marital rape a crime, it has been challenged in the Supreme Court.

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A Division Bench of Justice Rajiv Shakdher and Justice C Hari Shankar of the Delhi High Court had failed to agree on the constitutionality of Exception 2 to Section 275 of the IPC, which treats sex with one’s wife without her consent and against her will as an exception to the crime.

While Justice Shakdher declared Exception 2 to Section 375 of the IPC and two other provisions unconstitutional, Justice Hari Shankar had disagreed.

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