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First marital rape case filed in Dhading

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GAJURI (Dhading), Feb. 7: A 40-year-old woman in Kewalpur VDC-2 in the district has filed a complaint of marital rape against her husband at the District Police Office on Thursday.



In the complaint, she has said that she has been suffering from sexual violence at the hands of her husband since the past 15 years of her 25 years of married life, and has thereby remained ill almost all the time during those years.



"My husband used to come home drunk and force me to have sex with him at any time of the day or night", she has mentioned in the complaint while also accusing him of injuring her several times in the process.



The latest such incident of sexual violence took place on February 5 and 6, adds the complaint.



Following the complaint, police have arrested the alleged rapist husband and are carrying out necessary action to take the case ahead as per existing law.



This is the first such complaint of marital rape filed in the district, said Police Inspector Jeevan Budhathoki.



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