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An Indian judge has dismissed a woman’s complaint that her husband committed “unnatural sex,” because under Indian law it’s not illegal for a husband to force his wife to engage in sexual acts. The ruling, made in the Madhya Pradesh High Court last week, shines a light on a legal loophole in India that doesn’t criminalize marital rape by a husband against his wife, if she’s over age 18. Campaigners have been trying to change the law for years, but they say they’re up against conservatives who argue that state interference could destroy the tradition of marriage in India. A challenge to the law has been winding its way through the country’s courtrooms, with the Delhi High Court delivering a split verdict on the issue in 2022, prompting lawyers to file an appeal in the country’s Supreme Court that is still waiting to be heard. According to the Madhya Pradesh High Court order, the woman told police her husband came to her house in 2019, soon after they were married, and committed “unn...

In yet another horrific incident, a 42-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped by three persons. The accused trio break into her residence and attacked her with a sharp weapon before sexually assaulting her. The survivor suffered burn injuries on her private parts after being tortured using cigarettes The incident took place in Kurla in the early hours of Wednesday, news agency PTI, a Mumbai police official as saying on Sunday. The accused men lived not far from the woman's home.The accused raped her one by one and also performed unnatural sex. They singed her private parts with cigarettes and attacked her with a sharp weapon on the chest and both arms. One of the accused filmed the incident and threatened to circulate it if she approached police," the police officer told PTI. According to the police, the survivor alleged in her complaint that on November 30 around 5am when she was sleeping in her house, someone knocked on the door. When she opened the door no one was outsid...