INCIDENCE OF MARITAL RAPE IN TAMILNADU – A CASE STUDY
Journal Title: International Journal of Research in Social Sciences - Year 2018, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
Marital rape violates the right and dignity of a married woman and breaches the trust of wife. Even then, it is not criminalized as rape in India. This perception reinforces the concept of objectification in which a married woman being considered as an object or the property of the husband. It give rise to the question, if a married woman has right to save her body from the lust of her husband. No doubt the purpose of the marriage is to provide right to have sex with wife. Marital rape refers to redundant intercourse by a husband to his wife without her permission obtained by force to intimidation or when she is unable to give consent. The main purpose of this paper is to find out as to whether sex without the consent of wife should be considered as rape. This is an attempt to expose the discrimination, and fallacy of the criminal justice system in India and it provide arguments, reasons necessitating criminalization of marital rape with case studies of married women at selected Taluk of Tamil Nadu India.
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P. Kavipriya
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