Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Friday introduced a Private Member’s Bill in the Lok Sabha seeking to amend the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) to remove the marital rape exception, calling it an “urgent necessity” to protect the bodily autonomy and dignity of married women.

Tharoor said, “The criminalisation of marital rape is an urgent necessity in India’s legal framework. I introduced my Private Member’s Bill today to amend the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and remove the marital rape exception, reaffirming that marriage cannot negate the woman’s right to grant or deny consent.”

“India must uphold its constitutional values and move from ‘no means no’ to ‘only yes means yes’. Every woman deserves the fundamental right to bodily autonomy and dignity within marriage, protections our legal system f

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