Her’s was an arranged marriage. The abuse followed in the first month. He would force himself on her, sometimes seven times a day. Her access to a doctor was blocked even when she bled. Her phone was taken away and her room was the only space she could inhibit. One day, she decided it was enough and ran away.
The Delhi High Court asked if the courts should step back and refuse to take steps to remedy the situation whenever an issue like marital rape is challenged.
The Union Government's Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) or PCMA Bill, 2021 seeking to revise the marriageable age of women from 18 to 21 has raised a storm in the Parliament. It has invited critique in equal measure: both for its positioning and for the law itself. Its stated objectives are women empowerment, gender equality, increasing labour force participation,
In 2013, a 22-year-old woman who worked as a photojournalist in Mumbai was gang-raped in the Shakti Mills compound while she was on an assignment with a male colleague. In 2014, a sessions court sentenced three of the men involved in this crime to death by hanging. In November 2021, the Bombay High Court has commuted the death sentence of Vijay Jadhav, Qasim Shaikh and Salim
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