Utkarsh Raj, B.A.LL.B., Lloyd Law College, Greater Noida, Prachi Sahu, Department of Humanities (Grade 12), Vedic International School ABSTRACT This paper interrogates the constitutional validity of the marital rape exception preserved under Section 63, Exception 2 of India’s Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS), the statute that took effect on July 1, 2024 and supplanted the colonial-era Indian Penal Code of 1860. Even as lawmakers claimed to be purging Indian criminal law of its colonial...