The Supreme Court, in a landmark judgment, today said that sexual intercourse with a minor wife is rape. The Supreme Court struck down Exception 2 to Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code, which exempts marital rape of girls between the age of 15 and 18 from the purview of rape. Noting that law cannot compromise with the bodily integrity of minor girls, the Supreme Court said that the discrimination between a married girl child and an unmarried girl child is artificial. The Supreme Court said that it cannot turn a blind eye to girl child trafficking and asked the state to take steps to prevent child marriages. The Supreme Court today asked states to act againt child marriages.

Source: India Today October 11, 2017 05:31 UTC