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The petition, filed by the girl’s father, claimed the pregnancy resulted from repeated assaults by her lover.
The dip holds significance considering the fact that average teenage deliveries among Muslim girls in Kerala was above 15,000 in the past 10 years.
The 17-year-old girl had filed a petition in Bombay HC saying scans had shown that the foetus had skeletal anomalies.
The court also observed the child must be allowed to be born through either a caesarean section or normal delivery, a decision left to medical experts.
Justice Ziyad Rahman A A said that even according to the report of a medical board, constituted to examine the girl, continuation of the over 32 week pregnancy was likely to cause grave injury to the social and mental health of the 15-year old victim.
The Child Welfare Committee of Kasaragod united a 16-year-old girl with her newborn daughter 20 days after the state government separated them.
The marriage of a 17-year-old girl with a 26-year-old youth was conducted by her mother and relatives.
The verdict comes at a time the Delhi HC had refused to terminate an abortion request from a 25-year-old unmarried woman.
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