BENGALURU: A brutal act of sexual assault on the wife, albeit by the husband, without consent cannot but be termed a rape, the Karnataka high court observed on Wednesday.
"A man is a man; an act is an act; rape is a rape, be it performed by a man, the ‘husband', on the woman, the ‘wife'," Justice M Nagaprasanna held while refusing to interfere with the proceedings initiated against the husband charged with rape, cruelty, criminal intimidation and also offences under Section 29 and 30 of the Pocso Act in connection with alleged sexual acts committed against his own daughter.
