A wife cannot compel the prescription of a specific punishment against her husband to satisfy her ego, an intervenor said in the Delhi High Court on Tuesday.
According to a report by News18, Sexual intercourse between husband and wife cannot be labeled rape, and at worst, such an act of wrongdoing can be called sexual abuse, and a wife cannot compel the prescription of a specific punishment against her husband to satisfy her ego.
Sexual impropriety in marriage degrades a woman’s dignity
Friday, counsel for the intervenor NGO, told the court that in the marital sphere, sexual wrongdoing amounted to sexual abuse, which was defined as any sexual conduct that abuses, humiliates, degrades, or otherwise violates the dignity of another person under section 3 of the Domestic Violence Act.
What does Parliament have to say about it?
The marital rape exception, according to Friday’s lawyer R K Kapoor, was created to protect the institution of marriage and was not arbitrary or in violation of Articles 14, 15, or 21 of the Constitution.
Parliament does not say that such behavior is not sexual abuse (any sexual conduct), but it has elevated it to a higher level to save the institution of marriage.
