The Delhi High Court has been hearing a batch of petitions seeking criminalisation of marital rape. In written submissions filed in court on January 12, Centre told the court that the criminalisation of marital rape “could open the floodgates of false cases being made with ulterior motives”. As per the report by the India Today, it also stated that “apprehensions of gross misuse of the offence of marital rape cannot be ruled out”. The bench was hearing PILs filed by NGOs RIT Foundation, All India Democratic Women’s Association, a man and a woman seeking striking down of the exception granted t…