Rape is one of the heinous crime whether it is before marriage or after marriage by husbands. It not only affects the victim physically but also mentally and psychologically. If she is forced to have physical intercourse without her consent is this right. Physical relation in which only one person is taking all pleasure and making other feel burdens. In India, marital rapes are very common as the girl are wed without her consent and they are forced to have physical relation with someone new to her and she is not even feeling comfortable.
Marital rape often leads to violence in which the husband tries to hurt her and make her do things in which are not comfortable to her. Albeit if a women say no to intercourse with her husband she is ill-treated and seen with doubtful eyes that she might be having affair outside. Reasons behind marital rape are economic dependence of the women on her husband, absence of legal provisions, religious norms that the wife has been pure, devoted towards her husband and never to say no to her husband. These are some unethical concepts in our society.
There are many laws for marital rape but when women are not well educated they are deprived of availing the opportunity of these laws. In domestic violence 2005 law, there is explicitly written that marital rape is considered as rape only. Criminal law amendment act 2015 consider marital rape as illegal. If a girl is juvenile and had forceful intercourse with her husband in section 375 of IPC I consider rape. Marital rape is considering an act of cruelty under section 498A of IPC.
It violates fundamental rights of the constitution such as life with dignity. It is a shame for our country that women don’t have the right to their body and not allowed to mention their own choice of having physical relations.