Delhi HC refuses to quash case against doctor for aborting minor’s pregnancy, not reporting it

The Delhi High Court has declined to interfere with the criminal proceedings against a doctor for “illegally” terminating a 16-year-old girl’s six-week pregnancy and failing to report the matter to the authorities. In his order on Wednesday, Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav stated that a medical practitioner cannot rely solely on the oral assertion of a patient’s age while carrying out a medical termination of pregnancy. The court underscored that under the law, age has to be “ascertained and recorded”, and “not merely accepted on an unverified oral representation”.

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