The impunity of marital rape India is one of only 36 countries where this intimate assault is a perfectly legal crime. The law that shields marital rape must be urgently struck down. December 20, 2020 10:37:09 pm An FIR was registered in June last year on the complaint of the estranged husband who claimed that his bank account statements had been procured through a forged police notice. (Representational) Written by Anirudh Pratap Singh “When a stranger does it, he doesn’t know me, I don’t know him. He’s not doing it to me as a person, personally. With your husband, it becomes personal. You say, this man knows me. He knows my feelings. He knows me intimately and then to do this to me – it’s such a personal abuse.”