News > Marital rape exception is archaic, has no place in a just order: Adv Karuna Nundy tells Delhi HC
Marital rape exception is archaic, has no place in a just order: Adv Karuna Nundy tells Delhi HC
Scroll | 02/02/2022 01:13 PM | Click to read full article
"The legal exception pertaining to marital rape is archaic and has no place in a just constitutional order", lawyer Karuna Nundy told the Delhi High Court on Tuesday.
The High Court is hearing a batch of petitions to remove Exception 2 in the rape law under Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code. The exception states that forcible sexual intercourse by a man with his wife is not rape, unless the wife is below 15 years of age.
