Age of Consent and Marital Rape
On 9 August 2017, the Supreme Court of India clarified that intercourse or sexual act by a man with his wife, who is not below the age of 15 years, is not marital rape. Three articles from the EPW Archives look into some of these issues.
On 9 August 2017, the Supreme Court of India clarified that intercourse or a sexual act by a man with his wife, who is not below the age of 15 years, is not marital rape. This raises a number of questions about marital rape, the age and nature of consent, child-marriage and its space in the legal discourse, and the failure of the law to protect all minors equally.
Three articles from the EPW Archives look into some of these issues:
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