Shloab Arora examines the centrality of sexual intercourse to marriage within personal laws and explains its impact on the debate around criminalisation of marital rape, and how far mere criminalisation could take us.
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Dismantling the Marital Rape Exception: Constitutionality and Consent
Ed Note: The article presents a constitutional argument against marital rape, grounded in the anti-stereotyping principle. It attempts to answer a persistent question in the marital rape debate – what comes next after striking down …
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An Update on the Section 375-377 Ambiguity Question
Guest Post by Abhinav Sekhri The Indian Express recently reported that a District & Sessions Judge in Rewari, Haryana has referred a case to the Punjab & Haryana High Court. The issue highlighted seems identical …
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An Unnatural, Exceptional Confusion
Guest Post by Abhinav Sekhri and Devdutta Mukhopadhyay A little storm is brewing in the Delhi High Court. A bench of two judges (Chief Justice G. Rohini and Justice Sangita Dhingra Sehgal) issued notice …
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