Overview
- The Congress MP tabled a private member's bill in the Lok Sabha to end the marital-rape exception in the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
- The measure targets Section 63, seeking to make non-consensual sex within marriage a criminal offense.
- Tharoor said marriage cannot override a woman’s consent and urged a shift from “No means no” to “Only yes means yes.”
- He posted the bill’s statement of objects on X, calling criminalisation an urgent necessity in India’s legal framework.
- As with most private member proposals, progress typically hinges on government backing, and Tharoor also introduced bills on working hours and a permanent States and Union Territories reorganisation commission.