Tharoor highlighted that while India does have a strong anti-rape law, it does not extend to husbands. "Why should they be exempted?" he questioned.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday said he was “shocked” that marital rape was “not treated with seriousness” it deserves, despite India having stringent anti-rape laws, PTI news agency reported.

“I am shocked to find that India is one of the few democracies in the world where the case of a husband raping his wife without her consent is not treated with the seriousness as it should have been,” Tharoor said, while speaking at a programme organised by the Prabha Khaitan Foundation in association with the FICCI Ladies Organisation.

Tharoor highlighted that while India does have a strong anti-rape law, it does not extend to husbands. "Why s

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