{"id":51294,"date":"2018-01-19T11:02:10","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T05:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=51294"},"modified":"2018-01-19T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T05:32:10","slug":"marital-rape-offence-penal-law-aap-govt-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/marital-rape-offence-penal-law-aap-govt-hc","title":{"rendered":"Marital rape offence under penal law: AAP govt to HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/marital-rape.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" data-attachment-id=\"51295\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/marital-rape-offence-penal-law-aap-govt-hc\/marital-rape-3\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/01\/marital-rape.png?fit=1000%2C526&amp;ssl=1\" 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unmarried, under Article 21 (protection of life and personal liberty) of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The submissions were made before a bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar during the hearing of a bunch of pleas seeking criminalisation of marital rape.<\/p>\n<p>Delhi Government Additional Standing Counsel Nandita Rao said &#8220;marital rape is an offence under section 498A of IPC and the language of which is similar to personal law and the domestic violence law&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Section 498A of IPC deals with cruelty to a married woman by her husband or his relatives where cruelty means any wilful conduct which is of such a nature which is likely to drive the woman to commit suicide or to cause grave injury or danger to life, limb or health(whether mental or physical) of the woman.<\/p>\n<p>She said marital rape is one of the grounds of cruelty for divorce under the personal law.<\/p>\n<p>Rao contended that a court cannot add an offence or impose punishment under the law as it is the prerogative of the legislature.<\/p>\n<p>The submissions assume significance as one of the reasons given by the Centre for not making marital rape a criminal offence was that it could be &#8220;misused&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Centre has maintained that marital rape cannot be made a criminal offence as it could become a phenomenon which may destabilise the institution of marriage and become an easy tool to harass the husbands.<\/p>\n<p>The court was hearing PILs by NGOs RIT Foundation, All India Democratic Women&#8217;s Association and a man and a woman, who have sought striking down of the exception in the Indian penal law that does not consider sexual intercourse with a minor wife, above 15 years of age, as rape.<\/p>\n<p>Advocate Karuna Nandy, appearing for the NGOs, had earlier argued that misuse of a penal provision cannot be an argument for not criminalising an act and there might be false complaints lodged by women, but such cases were rare.<\/p>\n<p>The NGOs had said around 20 million married women in India were victims of marital rape every year.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court, in a historic verdict in October last, had held that sexual intercourse with a girl below 18 years of age, even by the husband, would amount to rape.<\/p>\n<p>It, thus, had read down a provision in the Indian Penal Code of 1860, exempting males from being tried for rape if the wives were between the age of 15 and 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>The top court&#8217;s verdict is likely to have a ramification in the petition pending before the high court.<\/p>\n<p>In the original petition before the high court, the NGOs had highlighted that the provision under the IPC did not consider non-consensual sexual intercourse with a wife, above 15 years of age, as rape.<\/p>\n<p>The high court is also hearing two intervention applications, one in support of pleas to make marital rape an offence and the other opposing it.<\/p>\n<p>The NGOs&#8217; counsel had said that 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