Forced to live together?

<div>What's a judge doing telling a wife to go back home to her husband, even if she doesn’t want to? Unfortunately, that’s what the law says. Under Section 9 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 the restitution of conjugal rights allows one party to appeal to the court to ‘restore’ his or her conjugal acts. Unsurprisingly, more men have used it than women. This episode of the Longest Constitution is about the long and ongoing struggle to strike section 9 of the Hindu Marriage Act down. <br><br></div><div>( <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/who-is/who-was-rukhmabai-raut-4949058/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span data-auto-link="true" data-href="https://indianexpress.com/article/who-is/who-was-rukhmabai-raut-4949058/">https://indianexpress.com/article/who-is/who-was-rukhmabai-raut-4949058/</span></a> )</div><div>Section 9, HMA </div><div>Kavitha Rao, Lady Doctors: The Untold Stories of India’s First Women in Medicine, Westland: 2021.</div><div><br>You can follow Priya on social media:</div><div>Instagram: ( <a href="https://www.instagram.com/naik.priya/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span data-auto-link="true" data-href="https://www.instagram.com/naik.priya/">https://www.instagram.com/naik.priya/</span></a> )</div><div>Twitter: ( <a href="https://twitter.com/fundamentallyp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span data-auto-link="true" data-href="https://twitter.com/fundamentallyp">https://twitter.com/fundamentallyp</span></a> )</div><div>Linkedin: ( <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/priya-mirza-73666310/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span data-auto-link="true" data-href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/priya-mirza-73666310/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/priya-mirza-73666310/</span></a> )</div><div><br>You can listen to this show and other awesome shows on the IVM Podcasts app on Android: <a href="https://ivm.today/android" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span data-auto-link="true" data-href="https://ivm.today/android">https://ivm.today/android</span></