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India takes first step towards criminalizing marital rape

India’s Supreme Court has clarified one of the concerns about the lack of legal recognition of marital rape as a crime – by ruling on Wednesday that sexual intercourse with a wife under 18, the legal age of consent, is rape. The judgment clarifies an inconsistency in statutory law, and despite being limited to the issue […]

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