Women’s rights in the balance as India weighs criminalizing marital rape

The Supreme Court of India is poised to deliver a landmark judgement that may make it a crime for a husband to rape his wife.

In recent months, the court has heard a batch of petitions that have challenged the current "marital rape exemption" to the criminal offense of rape. The judgment, expected to be handed down in the coming months, may bring India in line with the almost 150 countries that have already criminalized marital rape around the world.