India, Dec. 5 -- Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, in a bid to criminalise marital rape in India, introduced a private member's bill in the Parliament on Friday amid the ongoing winter session to amend the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and remove the marital rape exception.

The bill, according to Tharoor, seeks to reaffirm that "marriage cannot negate the woman's right to grant or deny consent".

Sharing a statement of objects and reasons behind the bill, Tharoor wrote in a post on X that criminalisation of marital rape is an "urgent necessity in India's legal framework".

"India must uphold its constitutional values and move from 'No Means No' to 'Only Yes Means Yes,'. Every woman deserves the fundamental right to bodily autonomy and dignity within...