Marital rape: NGO allowed to join as party to plea

An NGO claiming to espouse the rights of men has approached the Delhi high court seeking to be heard as a party to an ongoing PIL seeking to criminalise "marital rape ". A division bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Jayant Nath on Monday permitted Hridaya to become a party to the petition filed by another organisation called RIT Foundation.
Hridaya in its plea argued that "a man should not be branded a 'rapist' merely because he exercised his conjugal right without respecting the right of his wife to say no. This act of forcible sex should be dealt with either under domestic violence or cruelty but under no circumstances, a husband should be branded a rapist."
Appearing on behalf of the intervener, advocate R K Kapoor submitted that when it comes to legal remedies available to women, the existing laws are very much there (both under civil and criminal law) to give a speedy and effective remedy to women being abused by their husbands.
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