{"id":301264,"date":"2023-09-12T12:30:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=301264"},"modified":"2023-09-19T10:51:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T05:21:23","slug":"gujarat-hc-quotes-skanda-purana-while-allowing-minor-to-terminate-pregnancy-legal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2023\/09\/12\/gujarat-hc-quotes-skanda-purana-while-allowing-minor-to-terminate-pregnancy-legal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Gujarat HC allows minor to terminate 19 weeks pregnancy; quotes Skanda Purana highlighting value of mother in society"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;\">\n<p style=\"\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Gujarat High Court:<\/span> While hearing a criminal application to terminate the pregnancy of a minor victim, Samir J. Dave, J. allowed the application and directed for termination of pregnancy of the minor victim. The Court quoted verse from &#8216;Skanda Purana&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">\u0928\u0938\u094d\u0924\u093f \u092e\u093e\u0924\u0943\u0938\u092e\u093e \u091b\u093e\u092f\u093e \u0928\u093e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u093f \u092e\u093e\u0924\u0943\u0938\u092e\u093e \u0917\u0924\u093f\u0903\u0964<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">\u0928\u093e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u093f \u092e\u093e\u0924\u0943\u0938\u092e\u0902 \u0924\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0923\u0902 \u0924\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0923\u0902 \u0928\u093e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u093f \u092e\u093e\u0924\u0943\u0938\u092e\u093e \u092a\u094d\u0930\u092a\u093e\u0964\u0964<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court perused the medical report of the minor victim prepared by the panel of Doctors of GEMRS Medical College and noted that the minor victim was 19 weeks pregnancy and that it was opined that pregnancy can be terminated with usual risk associated with such condition keeping in mind age of patient and gestational age. The Court said that no significant systemic abnormality was detected with the pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court also perused the minor victims statement made under Section <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0001519400\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">164<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink.aspx?q=JTXT-0002726935\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973<\/a> and opined that the minor victim was willing to terminate the pregnancy. Hence, the Court refused to accept the accused person&#8217;s contention that the dispute between the parties related to caste and that the minor victim had never agreed for her medical termination of pregnancy and that the application was filed only due to her parent&#8217;s pressure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court referred to <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">X<\/span> v. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Health &amp; Family Welfare Department<\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/2pzm1bDN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2022 SCC OnLine SC 1321<\/a>, wherein it was observed that &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">the decision to carry the pregnancy to its full term or terminate it is firmly rooted in the right to bodily autonomy and decisional autonomy of the pregnant woman<\/span>&#8221; and &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">the right of every woman to make reproductive choices without undue interference from the state is central to the idea of human dignity. Deprivation of access to reproductive healthcare or emotional and physical well- being also injures the dignity of women<\/span>&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">Therefore, the Court gave weightage to the minor victim&#8217;s wish and desire to terminate the pregnancy as the relationship between the accused and the minor victim did not have any legal recognition and the victim was a minor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"\">Further, the Court said that the value that mother held in our society can be recognized from the following verse of &#8216;Skanda Purana&#8217;:<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;\">\u0928\u0938\u094d\u0924\u093f \u092e\u093e\u0924\u0943\u0938\u092e\u093e \u091b\u093e\u092f\u093e \u0928\u093e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u093f \u092e\u093e\u0924\u0943\u0938\u092e\u093e \u0917\u0924\u093f\u0903\u0964<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">\u0928\u093e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u093f \u092e\u093e\u0924\u0943\u0938\u092e\u0902 \u0924\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0923\u0902 \u0924\u094d\u0930\u093e\u0923\u0902 \u0928\u093e\u0938\u094d\u0924\u093f \u092e\u093e\u0924\u0943\u0938\u092e\u093e \u092a\u094d\u0930\u092a\u093e\u0964\u0964<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">The Court explained the meaning of the said verse as, there is no shadow, shelter and protection like that of mother, and that there is no birth giver as her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">Thus, the Court allowed the application for medical termination of the pregnancy and directed the Chief Medical Officer\/ Medical Superintendent, Civil Hospital to take necessary steps for undertaking the procedure of medical termination of pregnancy of the minor victim at the earliest possible time and in any case, within a period of one week from the date of Judgment. The Court also directed to preserve the subsequent DNA Test Report by drawing tissues from the foetus for the purpose of using it as a piece of evidence in the ensuing trial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\">[<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #632423;\">XXX v. State of Gujarat, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/x83d20DH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2023 SCC OnLine Guj 2856<\/a>, Decided on 08-09-2023<\/span>]<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>Advocates who appeared in this case :<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\">For the Applicant: Advocate Bhargav K. Mehta<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\">For the Accused: Advocate Amit N. Chaudhary, Advocate Devendra Patel<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 18pt;\">For the State of Gujarat: Assistant Public Prosecutor Bhargav Pandya<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #ff0000;\">*Deeksha Dabas, Editorial Assistant has reported this brief.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"color: #000080;\">Buy Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebcwebstore.com\/product_info.php?products_id=1031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 3%;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebcwebstore.com\/product_info.php?products_id=1031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/code-of-criminal-procedure-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Code of Criminal Procedure\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-294422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/code-of-criminal-procedure-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/code-of-criminal-procedure-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/code-of-criminal-procedure-440x293.jpg 440w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/code-of-criminal-procedure-650x433.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/code-of-criminal-procedure.jpg 886w, https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/code-of-criminal-procedure-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">&#8220;\u092e\u093e\u0924\u093e \u0915\u0947 \u0938\u092e\u093e\u0928 \u0915\u094b\u0908 \u091b\u093e\u092f\u093e \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902, \u0915\u094b\u0908 \u0906\u0936\u094d\u0930\u092f \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902, \u0915\u094b\u0908 \u0938\u0941\u0930\u0915\u094d\u0937\u093e \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902\u0964 \u0907\u0938 \u0935\u093f\u0936\u094d\u0935 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u092e\u093e\u0924\u093e \u0915\u0947 \u0938\u092e\u093e\u0928 \u0915\u094b\u0908 \u091c\u0940\u0935\u0928\u0926\u093e\u0924\u093e \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902\u0964&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67011,"featured_media":292951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[52772,11801,32314,60924,2991],"class_list":["post-301264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-gujarat-hc","tag-high-court","tag-minor-victim","tag-skanda-purana","tag-Termination_of_Pregnancy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gujarat HC quotes Skanda Purana while allowing minor to terminate pregnancy | SCC Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gujarat HC quotes Skanda Purana while allowing minor to terminate 19 weeks pregnancy\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2023\/09\/12\/gujarat-hc-quotes-skanda-purana-while-allowing-minor-to-terminate-pregnancy-legal-news\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gujarat HC allows minor to terminate 19 weeks pregnancy; 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