According to the Chhattisgarh High Court, sexual intercourse or any sexual act by a husband with his legally wedded wife is not rape even if it was by force or against her wish

She visited him on August 14 to meet his son who was not keeping well. That’s when Lt Colonel rapes wife and warned her to be silent over the whole thing else he would kill her.

The Kerala HC marital rape judgment makes some headway in favour of the cause so many married women have been rallying behind for years.

The Supreme Court on whether marital rape can be classified as rape asked if “when two people (are) living as husband and wife, can sexual intercourse between them be called rape?”

Isn’t it high time already that we finally stop viewing women as objects, and start seeing them as human beings who can decide for themselves?

How do the authorities expect women to file a complaint when their perpetrator is in the house regulating their movement round the clock?

Why it is important to have gender equality in law and how change in laws can lead to social change?

Misogynist scripts with a sweat-inducing rant and sexist punches tend to find their way to Kartik Aaryan.

Lack of sexual agency could also mean getting little to no intimacy from your partner and having no say in it. How many women can say confidently that they can demand sex from their partner without any inhibition?

India is one of the many countries in the world which has not yet made marital rape illegal. The existing law on rape in India has an exception where rape within a marriage or at home, perpetrated by the husband, is not a crime.