In a first, the High Court of Karnataka on Wednesday upheld rape charges framed against a husband by a trial court for brutal sexual assault on his wife.
“…Rape is a rape, be it performed by a man, the ‘husband’, on the woman, ‘wife’,” the court said, while refusing to accept the contention of the accused-husband that acts alleged against the husband fell under exception granted to a man for his sexual acts with wife under Section 375 (rape) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Justice M. Nagaprasanna passed the order while dismissing the 46-year-old husband’s petition. The charge framed in 2018 against the husband for alleged rape of his wife, in the peculiar facts of this case, did not warrant any interference as it was a matter of trial, the High Court said.
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