CURRENT AFFAIRS-UPSC DAILY CAPSULE-AUG 30 2017
CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS ‘Criminalising marital rape may become a tool to harass husbands’ Marital rape cannot be made a criminal offence as it could become a phenomenon which may destabilise the institution of marriage and an easy tool for harassing the husbands. The Centre, in an affidavit filed in response to pleas seeking criminalising marital rape, said the Supreme Court and various High Courts have already observed the growing misuse of Section 498A (harassment caused to a married woman by her husband and in-laws) of IPC. The reply, filed before a Bench of Acting Chief Justice Gita Mittal and Justice C. Hari Shankar, also sought to include State governments in the matter to know their opinion to avoid any complication at a later stage. The…


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