By means of PTI
NEW DELHI: The Central govt Thursday steered the Delhi Prime Court docket to defer the listening to on pleas to criminalise marital rape whilst keeping up that it was once dedicated to protective “the freedom, dignity, and rights of each and every girl who’s the elemental basis and pillar of a civilised society.”
The Centre, in a testimony filed sooner than a bench of Justices Rajiv Shakdher and C Hari Shankar, mentioned it is going to supply a time-bound agenda inside of which it is going to perform an efficient consultative procedure at the factor.
The court docket, which is engaging in the marathon complaints each day, will now listen the topic on Friday.
The Centre has not too long ago informed the top court docket that it’s “re-looking” at its previous stand on petitions searching for criminalisation of marital rape as that was once introduced on report within the affidavit filed a number of years in the past.
Previous in 2017, the Centre had hostile the petitions searching for to criminalise marital rape.
The bench is listening to a batch of petitions to strike down the exemption from prosecution for the offence of rape granted to husbands underneath the Indian Penal Code.