{"id":108647,"date":"2017-10-11T12:56:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T07:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=108647"},"modified":"2017-10-11T13:04:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T07:34:12","slug":"ex-wife-18-rape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/ex-wife-18-rape\/","title":{"rendered":"..ex with wife below 18 is rape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sex with a wife below 18 is rape, the Supreme Court said today in a landmark decision to end an exception in the law for men married to girls who are above 15.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-108648 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/631200-stop-child-marriage.jpg\" alt=\" ..ex with wife below 18 is rape \" width=\"557\" height=\"318\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;If a man has sexual intercourse with a wife who is below 18 years, it is an offence. The minor wife can complain against the husband within one year,&#8221; said the court, declaring that lowering the legal age for sex to 15 if the girl is married is unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Exception in rape law is discriminatory, capricious and arbitrary&#8230;It violates bodily integrity of the girl child,&#8221; said the court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Indian Penal Code or IPC defines sex with a girl below 18 &#8211; with or without her consent &#8211; as a crime. However, an exception is made if the girl is his wife and not below 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sex with a wife below 18 is rape, the Supreme Court said today in a landmark decision to end an exception in the law for men married to girls who are above 15. &#8220;If a man has sexual intercourse with a wife who is below 18 years, it is an offence. The minor wife can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,2],"tags":[55382,187,26738,55383,3161,850],"class_list":["post-108647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gossips","category-top-stories","tag-ex-with-wife-below-18-is-rape","tag-indian","tag-ipc","tag-minor","tag-sex","tag-supreme-court"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/e6666.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}