It would destabilize institution of Marriage: NGO opposes criminalisation of Marital Rape in Supreme Court

 

An NGO has moved the Apex Court opposing the criminalisation of marital rape, saying it would destabilise the institution of marriage.

The plea filed by NGO Purush Aayog Trust through its president Barkha Trehan has sought the Court's intervention in a batch of pleas pertaining to the criminalisation of marital rape and the Indian Penal Code (IPC) provision that provides protection to a husband against prosecution for forcible sexual intercourse if the wife is an adult.

The petition contended that the doctrine of separation of powers is a part of the basic structure of the Constitution and the power to create an offence solely vests with the legislature.

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