CHHATTISGARH HIGH COURT: PLEA DISMISSED FOR TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY ON GROUND OF STRAINED MARITAL RELATIONSHIP; IN INDIA ABORTION IS CONSIDERED A CRIME

The Chhattisgarh High Court in the case XYZ v. State of Chhattisgarh & Ors observed and has dismissed the plea filed by a married woman wherein seeking medical termination of her pregnancy which being only on the ground that the marital relationship which is between her husband and herself has got strained after she conceived out of the relationship.

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The single bench headed by Bench of Justice P. Sam Koshy in the case observed that the said court starts entertaining such pleas filed seeking for medical termination of pregnancy on grounds as have been claimed in the present Writ Petition, which being for the very purpose and object for the enactment of the said Act of 1971 would get defeated. Thus, the court denied the relief to the petitioner prayed in the plea.

In the present case, the petitioner being the 29-year-old, got married in 2022 and it has also been admitted to have conceived from her marital relationship.

However, the couple decided as the relationships between the couple did not work well, the lady decided to end her pregnancy.