India, Feb. 12 -- Under Indian laws, if a person commits actions that result in the death of another person, they are liable to be punished for a minimum of five years in jail and a maximum of life imprisonment. But a 40-year-old man who allegedly indulged in brutal unnatural sex with his wife, which eventually led to her death, found himself exonerated by the Chhattisgarh high court (HC) this week because a man cannot be prosecuted for marital rape in India. Despite his conviction by a lower court, the Chhattisgarh HC found it fit to acquit the man of rape, unnatural sex and culpable homicide and order his immediate release - all because Exception 2 under Section 375 of IPC clears a husband from prosecution for raping his wife. The judgm...
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