MARITAL RAPE: INDIAN JUDGE RULES AGAINST WIFE WHO SUED HUSBAND FOR FORCED 'UNNATURAL SEX'. (PHOTO).
An Indian judge has dismissed the complaint of a woman who claimed that her husband committed “unnatural sex,”. The judge said it is not illegal for a husband to force his wife to engage in sexual acts under the Indian law. The ruling, made in the Madhya Pradesh High Court last week, highlighted a legal loophole in India that doesn’t criminalise marital rape by a husband against his wife if she’s over age 18. The woman told police her husband came to her house in 2019, soon after they were married, and committed “unnatural sex,” under Section 377 of India’s penal code, according to the Madhya Pradesh High Court order. The offence includes non-consensual “carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal,” and was historically used to prosecute same-sex couples who engaged in consensual sex before the Supreme Court decriminalized homosexuality in 2018 The woman also alleged the act happened “on multiple occasions,” and that her husband had threatened to divorc
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