The only thing harsh about rape is what happens to the victim
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I’m OK with excessively harsh
they sure are making it difficult for me to not being reported by xenophobic comments
To summarise – Indian government wants to override the precedent the supreme court is trying to set.
Unconscionable.
>Marital rape is outlawed in more than 100 countries, including Britain which criminalised it in 1991. >But India remains among the three dozen countries – along with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia – where the law remains on the statute books.
Ahh… never change India. Supershithole by 2050.
get after it ladies. Chain him up and ram in wherever you want! oh, you only wanted men to rape women? weird flex
India has a bit of an image problem as far as extra-marital rape is concerned too. I’m not sure why they want to be seen as the “Rape Country”, makes you look a bit… Weird…
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India is advancing in leaps and bounds but its patriarchy is holding it back.
At least the supreme court is trying, they usually get their way, so the only bad news here is the government people elected aren’t working for the people’s interests.
Just outlaw marriage in India. As a bonus this would also get rid of dowry demands.
India….nuff said.
Literal shit hole
It’s crazy to me for anyone to say that criminalising any form of rape is excessively harsh. Also 1 in 25 in India are victims of marital rape according to the article. That’s just insane.
Stay classy, India
India is such great place with all the rape and really clean
FunFact: here in germany marital rape wasn’t a crime until ’92 and even then some CDU politians (like our future Chancellor Merz) were against criminalizing it. Beating your kids wasn’t illegal until 2000 too.
Is Bill Burr some kind of heaven sent prophet?
“Just jerk one out” seems to be the good news that a significant part of the world’s population doesn’t understand.
My list of reasons for never wanting to visit India again just got a bit longer. I shall add this under my reason 47: Using beaches as public shitters.
Ffs India…
I can understand why they align more with Russia than the West.
India and Rape just cannot be separated
That’s just giving the men okay to rape their wives.
On brand.
Lovely place India. Have to worry about getting raped in your home and gang raped on the way to work.
They’re not doing themselves any favours to shake the India is rapist country image
India is low key a kinda fascist country. It also seems that most Indian Americans running for office or involved in government are GOP and hard right.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80r38yeempo.amp) reduced by 82%. (I’m a bot) ***** > The Indian government has opposed petitions in the top court that seek criminalisation of marital rape, saying it would be "Excessively harsh".
> Criminalising marital rape "May seriously impact the conjugal relationship and may lead to serious disturbances in the institution of marriage", it stated.
> The affidavit noted that in a marriage, there was a "Continuing expectation to have reasonable sexual access from one's spouse" and while this did not entitle a husband to coerce his wife into having sex, including marital rape under anti-rape laws would be "Excessively harsh" and "Disproportionate".
I think it’s excessively harsh criminalising setting rapists on fire.
“The federal home ministry told the Supreme Court that “a man does not have a fundamental right” to force sex on his wife, but there were enough laws to protect married women against sexual violence.”
It is only a comment from an internal debate between the Home Ministry and the Supreme Court. No one in the government is trying to make sure rape happens or that rapists are protected.
As usual, BBC is out with its clickbait headlines to make controversial something that need not be.
And of course people in the comments have decided to not even read this specific part and understand that this isn’t the Indian government “Let women be raped” but rather ONLY SOME FOLKS WITHIN THE FEDERAL HOME MINISTRY saying something like “We might have adequate laws in place for this already, are we sure we want to add any more laws and potentially add extra steps for the victims when they do file they case?”
This only means that the people running the government enjoy raping their spouses.
But it’s India, they have gang rape as a national pastime on the same level the U.S. has gun violence as a national pastime.
Disgusting.
This news piece keeps popping up on Reddit every few days . It’s a court observation by a side . Laws on marital rape are being formulated and this stance is by one side . It’s a sub judis matter and sensationalism by non Indian media who have no stakes whatsoever in Indian judicial system tantamount to racism.
Ahhhh where are the all the Indians who always say this isn’t what my country represents?
Indian Rape Apologists have their whatabouts at the ready.
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Yeah fuck this noise
Gang rape is the national sport over there so it tracks.
What a shite country.
Excessively harsh?? To whom? I doubt the woman being raped would agree.
Enablers
I would never want to visit India
why should it be any different if you’re married?
You’re not beating the allegations, India.
And they immigrate all over the world in huge numbers
Those poor husbands not being able to force their wives into having sex
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The only thing harsh about rape is what happens to the victim
[removed]
I’m OK with excessively harsh
they sure are making it difficult for me to not being reported by xenophobic comments
To summarise – Indian government wants to override the precedent the supreme court is trying to set.
Unconscionable.
>Marital rape is outlawed in more than 100 countries, including Britain which criminalised it in 1991.
>But India remains among the three dozen countries – along with Pakistan, Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia – where the law remains on the statute books.
Ahh… never change India. Supershithole by 2050.
get after it ladies. Chain him up and ram in wherever you want! oh, you only wanted men to rape women? weird flex
India has a bit of an image problem as far as extra-marital rape is concerned too. I’m not sure why they want to be seen as the “Rape Country”, makes you look a bit… Weird…
[deleted]
India is advancing in leaps and bounds but its patriarchy is holding it back.
At least the supreme court is trying, they usually get their way, so the only bad news here is the government people elected aren’t working for the people’s interests.
Just outlaw marriage in India. As a bonus this would also get rid of dowry demands.
India….nuff said.
Literal shit hole
It’s crazy to me for anyone to say that criminalising any form of rape is excessively harsh. Also 1 in 25 in India are victims of marital rape according to the article. That’s just insane.
Stay classy, India
India is such great place with all the rape and really clean
FunFact: here in germany marital rape wasn’t a crime until ’92 and even then some CDU politians (like our future Chancellor Merz) were against criminalizing it.
Beating your kids wasn’t illegal until 2000 too.
Is Bill Burr some kind of heaven sent prophet?
“Just jerk one out” seems to be the good news that a significant part of the world’s population doesn’t understand.
My list of reasons for never wanting to visit India again just got a bit longer. I shall add this under my reason 47: Using beaches as public shitters.
Ffs India…
I can understand why they align more with Russia than the West.
India and Rape just cannot be separated
That’s just giving the men okay to rape their wives.
On brand.
Lovely place India. Have to worry about getting raped in your home and gang raped on the way to work.
They’re not doing themselves any favours to shake the India is rapist country image
India is low key a kinda fascist country. It also seems that most Indian Americans running for office or involved in government are GOP and hard right.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80r38yeempo.amp) reduced by 82%. (I’m a bot)
*****
> The Indian government has opposed petitions in the top court that seek criminalisation of marital rape, saying it would be "Excessively harsh".
> Criminalising marital rape "May seriously impact the conjugal relationship and may lead to serious disturbances in the institution of marriage", it stated.
> The affidavit noted that in a marriage, there was a "Continuing expectation to have reasonable sexual access from one's spouse" and while this did not entitle a husband to coerce his wife into having sex, including marital rape under anti-rape laws would be "Excessively harsh" and "Disproportionate".
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The. Fuck?!
India is so weird
I think it’s excessively harsh criminalising setting rapists on fire.
“The federal home ministry told the Supreme Court that “a man does not have a fundamental right” to force sex on his wife, but there were enough laws to protect married women against sexual violence.”
It is only a comment from an internal debate between the Home Ministry and the Supreme Court. No one in the government is trying to make sure rape happens or that rapists are protected.
As usual, BBC is out with its clickbait headlines to make controversial something that need not be.
And of course people in the comments have decided to not even read this specific part and understand that this isn’t the Indian government “Let women be raped” but rather ONLY SOME FOLKS WITHIN THE FEDERAL HOME MINISTRY saying something like “We might have adequate laws in place for this already, are we sure we want to add any more laws and potentially add extra steps for the victims when they do file they case?”
This only means that the people running the government enjoy raping their spouses.
But it’s India, they have gang rape as a national pastime on the same level the U.S. has gun violence as a national pastime.
Disgusting.
This news piece keeps popping up on Reddit every few days . It’s a court observation by a side . Laws on marital rape are being formulated and this stance is by one side . It’s a sub judis matter and sensationalism by non Indian media who have no stakes whatsoever in Indian judicial system tantamount to racism.
Ahhhh where are the all the Indians who always say this isn’t what my country represents?
Indian Rape Apologists have their whatabouts at the ready.
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Yeah fuck this noise
Gang rape is the national sport over there so it tracks.
What a shite country.
Excessively harsh?? To whom? I doubt the woman being raped would agree.
Enablers
I would never want to visit India
why should it be any different if you’re married?
You’re not beating the allegations, India.
And they immigrate all over the world in huge numbers
Those poor husbands not being able to force their wives into having sex
😑😑😑