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India News: Bombay high court on Monday kept for urgent hearing a petition filed by two gynaecologists, which seeks to assail actions of a police officer from a d

The Court, however, also said that the exercise of such right comes along with the responsibility to “discharge duties that arise on exercise of such an option.”

A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court on Monday rejected a plea to abort a pregnancy that had crossed the threshold of 24 weeks under the MTP Act in view of a report that the foetus is viable.

Every bench of the top court represents the Supreme Court and no intra-court appeals can be filed by bypassing any of the Supreme Court benches, observed a division bench of the Supreme Court today (October 11).

While Justice Kohli was not in favour of termination of the pregnancy, Justice Nagarathna opined that the view of the woman had to be respected over claims of viability of the foetus.

The Supreme Court, in a special Saturday sitting, today objected to the Gujarat High Court's handling of a case where a 26-week pregnant rape survivor sought termination of her pregnancy.