Senior Congress leader and former diplomat Shashi Tharoor expressed profound shock on Thursday that India remains one of the few democracies globally where the issue of marital rape is not treated with the seriousness it warrants.

"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 at an event in Kolkata.

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"Why should they (husbands) be exempted?" he said.

“We think a proper law against domestic rape is massively necessary in the country. It is however sad that even women ministers holding particular portfolios did not look into thi

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