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No plan to criminalize sex between a man and an adult woman: government
There is no proposal to criminalize sexual intercourse or sexual acts between a man and his own wife as the woman is not below 18 years of age, the Home Ministry informed Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. Junior Home Minister Bandi Sanjay Kumar said, “Sections 74,75,76 and 85 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Domestic Violence Act2005 provide for a sufficiently adequate legal remedy, thereby protecting the right and dignity of a woman in marriage“.

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