{"id":29914,"date":"2018-10-26T13:02:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=29914"},"modified":"2018-10-26T13:02:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T07:32:14","slug":"sexual-intercourse-in-long-term-relationship-not-rape-says-sc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sexual-intercourse-in-long-term-relationship-not-rape-says-sc\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual intercourse in long-term relationship not rape, says SC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/sexual-intercourse-in-long-term-relationship-not-rape-says-sc\/article23579080.ece\"><strong>Sexual intercourse in long-term relationship not rape, says SC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sexual intercourse in the course of a long-term relationship cannot be classified as rape, the Supreme Court has held.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Petition<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Bench was hearing an appeal against an order of the Karnataka High Court, which refused to quash a rape case.<\/li>\n<li>The woman alleged that she had lived with the man for a period of eight years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SC observed<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is difficult to hold sexual intercourse in the course of a relationship, which has continued for eight years, as \u2018rape\u2019, especially in the face of the complainant\u2019s own allegation that they lived together as man and wife<\/li>\n<li>This was especially true if the complainant-woman herself alleges that she and the accused had lived as man and wife.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sexual intercourse in long-term relationship not rape, says SC What has happened? Sexual intercourse in the course of a long-term relationship cannot be classified as rape, the Supreme Court has held. Petition The Bench was hearing an appeal against an order of the Karnataka High Court, which refused to quash a rape case. The woman&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sexual-intercourse-in-long-term-relationship-not-rape-says-sc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sexual intercourse in long-term relationship not rape, says SC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704810407},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}