The Supreme Court on Tuesday determined to pay attention the pleas touching on the criminalisation of marital rape withinside the 2d week of January 2023.
A bench headed with the aid of using the Chief Justice DY Chandrachud issued the route after a sparkling writ petition filed withinside the case changed into referred to earlier than the courtroom docket with the aid of using Senior Advocate CU Singh. He additionally knowledgeable the bench that instances at the identical problem are indexed earlier than one of a kind benches and have to be heard with the aid of using one bench instead.
Singh changed into regarding petitions filed difficult Delhi High Court’s cut up verdict at the criminalisation of marital rape and the petition difficult the Karnataka High Court’s order which allowed a person to be attempted for allegedly raping his wife.
Advocate Karuna Nandy performing withinside the Delhi HC case and senior recommend Indira Jaising performing withinside the Karnataka HC case, have been additionally gift earlier than the courtroom docket.
The bench thereafter directed the case to be indexed withinside the 2d week of January 2023.
In the Delhi HC case, a cut up verdict changed into surpassed in a batch of pleas filed difficult the validity of an exception to Section 375 IPC which gives for marital rape exception.
In the Karnataka HC matter, the Supreme Court had in July 2022 stayed HC’s order which allowed a person to be attempted for allegedly raping his wife.
A bench headed with the aid of using former CJI NV Ramana had granted an ad-period in-between live of the High Court’s order dated March 23, 2022, and similarly lawsuits when it comes to lawsuits pending earlier than the Additional City and Sessions and Special Court for instances below the POCSO Act, Bangalore.