{"id":3075,"date":"2026-09-09T17:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T17:59:10","slug":"supreme-court-takes-up-marital-rape-challenge-says-marriage-does-not-end-individual-autonomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/supreme-court-takes-up-marital-rape-challenge-says-marriage-does-not-end-individual-autonomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Takes Up Marital-Rape Challenge, Says Marriage Does Not End Individual Autonomy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New Delhi:<\/strong> The Supreme Court began examining a set of cases concerning the marital-rape exception. The court decided to first hear an appeal arising from a Karnataka case involving allegations that a husband treated his wife as a \u201csex slave\u201d. Justice Joymalya Bagchi said marriage does not extinguish an individual&#8217;s autonomy, while the court considers the legal and constitutional questions surrounding prosecution for rape within marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Action to Be Taken<\/strong><br>Women facing sexual violence within marriage should have access to legal advice, protection and support services, irrespective of their marital status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: The Supreme Court began examining a set of cases concerning the marital-rape exception. The court decided to first hear an appeal arising from a Karnataka case involving allegations that a husband treated his wife as a \u201csex slave\u201d. Justice Joymalya Bagchi said marriage does not extinguish an individual&#8217;s autonomy, while the court considers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3077,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3075\/revisions\/3077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilabs.in\/shereport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}