Beer Biceps, Chhattisgarh HC’s marital rape decision and the making of a crime in Hindu majoritarian India

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Beer Biceps, Chhattisgarh HC’s marital rape decision and the making of a crime in Hindu majoritarian India

The string of State actions against social media influencer Ranveer Allahabadia for a joke on an online show, and a recent decision by the Chhattisgarh High Court acquitting a person accused of committing marital rape have something in common. As liberal democratic principles erode systematically, how the State responds to offences will be shaped by the society’s majoritarian impulses.