MARITAL RAPE: THE NEWEST BRANCH OF THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY

The criminalization of Marital Rape in India has been a highly contentious and controversial topic of debate in recent times. Its reverberating uproar in recent times led to the hashtag #MarriageStrike, which trend went viral on social media. This was so because recently, the Hon’ble Delhi High Court agreed to hear the petitions filed by certain NGOs and individuals challenging the exception to section 375 of the IPC which keeps sexual intercourse by a man with his own wife (wife not being under fifteen years of age) out of the purview of the definition of Rape...