Marital Rape and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita: Should the Criminal Law Exception Continue?
Exception 2 to Section 63 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS), reproduces the historic marital rape exception that first appeared as Exception 2 to Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC), by stipulating that sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under eighteen...