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Marital Rape In India





Devansh Gupta, Chandigarh University


Introduction


“The husband cannot be guilty of a rape committed by himself upon his lawful wife, for by their mutual consent and contract the wife hath given up herself in this kind upon her husband, that she cannot retract"


India is the seventh-largest country in the world with a population of over 1.36 billion and therefore the largest democracy within the world it's rustic with a mix of assorted religions, cultures, languages, customs, and usages and far additional. The rate of Indian countries is 46 % and increasing at a minatory rate of 56% 2and as per the report of the National Crime Record Bureau in the Year, 2019 was 62. 4 percent per large integer girls. There was a big rise of 7.3% in crime against girls compared to last year.3\

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