Vedic Mangal Agarwal & Muskan Singh Bankura, UPES, Dehradun
ABSTRACT
Law cannot be left stagnant; the law also requires updates like anything in the world. One of the latest requirements is recognizing marital rape as a ground of divorce. Right to protection, personal choice is given to every individual then why should a married woman be left abdomen. It is essential to understand the present scenario. This woman marries her husband believing in being respected and protected but gets tortured and forced to have undesired sexual intercourse. This is not justified and needs urgent regulation to protect women’s health, save them from mental trauma and ensure their wellbeing. This paper is about criminalizing marital rape and adding marital rape as a ground of divorce.
Keywords: marital rape, ground of divorce, women’s health, criminalizing
Comments