Supreme Court · 2009 INSC 1086 · Decided 28 August 2009
Suchita Srivastava & ANR. v. Chandigarh Administration
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2009 INSC 1086 · [2009] 13 S.C.R. 989
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5845/2009
- Decided
- 28 August 2009
- Bench
- K.G. BALAKRISHNAN, P. SATHASIVAM, B.S. CHAUHAN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 21
Headnote
\" MEDICAL TERM/NATION OF PREGNANCY ACT, 1971: c ss. 3(4)(a) and (b)- Termination of pregnancy by medical practitioners in certain cases - Mentally retarded orphan in a Government run welfare home -Found pregnant - Petition _;, by administration seeking approval pregnancy- Report of expert body that the ~rphan was in mild to moderate mental retardation and was willing to bear a child - High Court granting approval to terminate the pregnancy - Held: The statute clearly contemplates that even a mentally retarded woman should give her consent for
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