Marital rape issue of tremendous importance, says delhi hc
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The court asked senior advocate Raju Ramachandran, who is assisting it as an amicus curiae, to freely express his views on the issue in which 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. Ramachandran told the
bench that he will come up with his views after hearing the submissions of the Centre and the NGOs. Advocate Karuna Nandy, appearing for the two NGOs, tried to impress the bench by citing
few studies and research to press for the prayer to declare forcible sexual intercourse between married couple as an offence. She elaborated by referring to the 2005 data of National Crime
Record Bureau (NCRB) about the gravity of the situation.