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Evening brief: Why petitioners challenged constitutionality of marital rape
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‘Half-hearted reply an injustice’: Centre asks time in marital rape hearing
Solicitor general Tushar Mehta, who appeared for the Centre, said that the issue should not be seen from a “microscopic angle” and several considerations would be considered by the government while formulating its stand.

Marriage exception in rape law an instrument of oppression, HC told
The high court is hearing PILs by NGOs RIT Foundation, All India Democratic Women’s Association and two individuals who have sought striking down the exception in the Indian law, saying that it discriminated against married women being sexually assaulted by their husbands.
