"Act of Judicial Statesmanship". Senior Advocate Indira Jaisingh on Karnataka High Court Judgment regarding marital rape.
In the article "Criminalising marital rape. When is an exception not an exception", Senior Advocate Indira Jaisingh describes recent Karnataka High Court judgment on marital rape as an 'act of judicial statesmanship'. In the pathbreaking judgment delivered on 23 March 2022 in the case of Hrishikesh Sahoo vs The State of Karnataka and others, Writ Petition 48367 of 2018, Justice Nagaprasanna considers the issue of “Integrity and bodily freedom of a woman, the wife, being ravaged by the husband, whether, could be absolved and protected by a law that mandates equality of its application”. What pervades the entire petition, says the Judge , “wanton lust, vicious appetite, depravity of senses, loathsome beast of passion, unbridled unleashing of carnal desire of demonish perversion” The Hon'ble Judge notes that " Marital rape is illegal in 50 American States, 3 Australian States, New Zealand, Canada, Israel, France, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Soviet Union, Pola...