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The Supreme Court in 2017 read down Exception 2 to Section 375 Indian Penal Code to be meaningfully read as: "Sexual intercourse or sexual acts by a man with his own wife, the wife not being under eighteen years of age, is not rape," in the case of:

A. Independent Thought v. Union of India

B. Assn. for Social Justice & Research v. Union of India

C. Court on its Own Motion (Lajja Devi) v. State

D. None of the above

Answer: Option A


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