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The Indian women campaigning to criminalise marital rape

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Lawyer Karuna Nundy speaks during an interview with AFP at her residence in New Delhi on May 27, 2024. [AFP]

Raped by her husband on her wedding night aged 17, Divya described her repeated suffering an all-too-common account in India, permitted by a terrifying colonial-era legal loophole.

"I told him I have never had sex, and asked him if we can take it slowly and try to understand it," 19-year-old Divya said.

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