Rape, isn't that a crime in India? No, the rape (by husband) after marriage is not an offence/crime. No wonder that we still talk about criminalising marital rape in our country since India is always being a patriarchal society wherein male/ male child is fostered as commanding gender in a family. This is the long heard story in this country. For a male child, right from his birth, he is being inculcated with the idea of being dominant in the family. This at times ends up at crime against the other gender. When we talk about marital rape, we need to understand, what is rape? Before 2013 amendment to the Indian Penal Code (IPC), it is understood that forceful penetration of the penis into the vagina is rape but soon after the Nirbhaya rape issue in India, the definition of rape has been extended. We live in a country where approximately 33, 356 rape crimes happened in a year (National Crime Records Bureau NCRB, 2018) wherein which NCRB
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