‘Wrong to say every marriage is violent’ : Smriti Irani

New Delhi: The protection of women and children in the country is a priority for all but condemning every marriage as violent and every man a rapist is not advisable, Minister of Women & Child Development Smriti Irani said in the Rajya Sabha Wednesday. Replying to CPI leader Binoy Viswam’s supplementary query on marital rape. He sought to know if the government had taken note of Section 3 of the Domestic Violence Act on the definition of domestic violence as well as Section 375 of the IPC on rape. “.... to condemn every marriage in this country as a violent marriage, and to condemn every man in this country as a rapist is not advisable in this august house,” she said. (PTI)