Indian women seek to criminalise marital rape

Raped by her husband on her wedding night aged 17, Divya described her repeated suffering — an all-too-common account in India, permitted by a terrifying colonial-era legal loophole. “I told him I have never had sex, and asked him if we can take it slowly and try to understand it,” 19-year-old Divya said. “He said:

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