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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to examine whether the law excluding non-consensual sexual intercourse by a husband against his wife from the definition of rape can withstand constitutional scrutiny. The court is hearing challenges to the marital rape exception under both the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).The issue came before a Bench hearing a batch of petitions challenging Exception 2 to Section 375 of the IPC. The pleas also question the corresponding exception under Section 63 of the BNS and seek its reading down to allow non-consensual sexual acts within marriage to be treated as rape.The Bench indicated that the matter involved a fundamental question about the limits of judicial interpretation, particularly whether courts can permit prosecution for conduct that Parliament has expressly excluded from the offence.The court also raised the question of whether an individual could be prosecuted for marital rape…