{"id":229342,"date":"2020-05-11T17:30:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=229342"},"modified":"2020-05-22T17:18:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T11:48:22","slug":"bom-hc-16-year-old-girl-victim-of-rape-allowed-for-medical-termination-of-24-weeks-pregnancy-in-case-child-born-is-alive-all-necessary-facilities-to-save-its-life-shall-be-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/05\/11\/bom-hc-16-year-old-girl-victim-of-rape-allowed-for-medical-termination-of-24-weeks-pregnancy-in-case-child-born-is-alive-all-necessary-facilities-to-save-its-life-shall-be-taken\/","title":{"rendered":"Bom HC | 16 year old girl, victim of rape, allowed for medical termination of 24 weeks pregnancy; In case child born is alive, all necessary facilities to save its life shall be taken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Bombay High Court:\u00a0<\/strong>S.C. Gupte, J., allowed medical termination of 24 weeks pregnancy of 16 year old girl victim of rape &amp; sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petitioner had sought for medical termination of 23 weeks pregnancy of his daughter who is 16 years old and is a victim of rape and sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In respect of the offence of rape and sexual abuse, an FIR has been registered by the Petitioner with Paud Police Station, Pune.<\/p>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Petitioner&#8217;s case proceeds on the footing that his daughter, being of a tender age of 16 years, is likely to suffer mental and physical trauma due to unwanted and dangerous pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So also, it is submitted that continuation of pregnancy at this tender age of 16 years is likely to leave a maternal mortality and in the premises, permission of this court is sought for medical termination of pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Court referred the case on 5th May, 2020 to a medical committee. Medical Board recommended termination of pregnancy in view of her history and teenage pregnancy carrying <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">higher mental and physical morbidity and mortality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus, Bench held that <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">considering that despite being aware of the dangers of continuation of pregnancy as well as its termination, Petitioner and his daughter having expressed a keen desire before the Board to terminate the pregnancy and considering the specific opinion of the Medical Board, it is imperative to permit the medical termination of pregnancy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Court also stated that in view of the same being a result of rape and sexual abuse, <span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">appropriate directions for preservation of tissue and blood sample of the fetus for carrying out requisite medical tests including DNA finger printing \/mapping would have to be passed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Bench further observed that, in case the child born is alive and the Petitioner and his daughter are not willing to or not in a position to take responsibility of such child, the State and its agencies will have to assume full responsibility for such child.[Pramod A. Solanke v. Dean of B.J. Govt. Medical College &amp; Sasoon Hospital,\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/cGaBQmWb\"><b>2020 SCC OnLine Bom 639 <\/b><\/a>, decided on 08-05-2020]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bombay High Court:\u00a0S.C. 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