The Gujarat High Court has observed a major point of view emphasising marital rape. while a series of petitions seeking to criminalise marital rape are presently pending before the Supreme Court, Justice Divyesh Joshi of the Gujarat High Court has held that “rape is a rape even if it is committed by the victim’s husband.”
The single-judge statement pointed out in the hearing of Rajkot’s horrendous crime scene where the survivor’s husband allegedly used to rape her and recorded it to upload it on a pornographic website.
The father-in-law and mother-in-law of the survivor were also allegedly involved in the crime and used to record intimate relationships between their son and daughter-in-law.
The mother-in-law was not only privy to the actions of her husband and son but also encouraged them.
Opposing the bail plea of the survivor’s mother-in-law, public prosecutor Manan Mehta said that the survivor’s mother-in-law has played a huge role in orchestrating the crime. She allegedly forced the survivor into the act with her father-in-law.