New Delhi: In a landmark ruling, the Gujarat High Court on Thursday permitted the termination of a 24 weeks old pregnancy of a minor rape victim.
According to the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act of 1971, the limit of such termination of pregnancy is 20 weeks.
Therefore, the minor was not allowed to undergo abortion.
Later, the father of the minor pleaded the High Court to pass an order to allow medical termination of forced pregnancy.
The court also perused medical observations of an ad-hoc committee of doctors from Government Medical college in surat, that examined the rape survivor.
Besides, according to section 3 of the above act, pregnancy can be terminated if the procedure is necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman.
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