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8. Learned Counsel for the Petitioner has drawn attention of this Court
to a Judgment passed by the Apex Court in X vs. Principal Secretary,
Health and Family Welfare Department, Govt. of NCT of Delhi and
Another, 2022 SCC OnLine SC 1321. The facts in the said case were that a
girl was in consensual relationship and got pregnant. She was deserted by
her partner. The Petitioner therein approached this Court for a direction for
terminating her pregnancy because the pregnancy had exceeded 20 weeks
and the medical practitioners refused to conduct the procedure for
terminating her pregnancy. This Court refused to grant the interim order
which was carried on to the Apex Court by filing Civil Appeal No. 5802 of
SUBRAMONIUM PRASAD, J
OCTOBER 16, 2023
S. Zakir