MINOR S THR HER MOTHER M vs THE STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND ANR

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$~97 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI % Date of decision: 09.12.2025 + W.P. (CRL) 4090/2025 MINOR S THR HER MOTHER M .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Anwesh Madhukar, Ms. Prachi Nirwan, Ms. Simran Chaudhary, Advocates with victim S and her mother M in person. versus THE STATE OF NCT OF DELHI AND ANR .....Respondents Through: Ms. Rupali Bandhopadhya, ASC with Mr. Abhijeet Kumar, Ms. Amisha Gupta, Advocates. SI Priyanka, PS-Alipur. CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAVINDER DUDEJA JUDGMENT(ORAL) RAVINDER DUDEJA, J. 1. Petitioner is a 17 years old rape victim, who has filed the present petition through her mother, seeking intervention of this Court for termination of her pregnancy since the current gestational age of the petitioner is beyond the permissible limits of the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1971 (as amended by the MTP Amendment Act, 2021). 2. The brief facts are that on 25.03.2025, petitioner informed her mother at about 3.00 pm that she would be going downstairs in order W.P. (CRL) 4090/2025 Page 1 of 11 Signature Not Verified Digitally Signed By:VAISHALI PRUTHI Signing Date:09.12.2025 21:16:46 to procure some goods and since then, she had been missing. On 26.03.2025, pursuant to her missing, petitioner’s mother approached PS Alipur where FIR No. 142/2025 was registered under Section 137(2) BNS, 2023. 3. On 22.11.2025, petitioner was recovered from Bihar and was taken to Satyawadi Raja Harish Chandra Hospital, Delhi, where her MLC was conducted. It was disclosed by the petitioner that she had left for Bhagalpur, Bihar to stay with her boyfriend. Upon her medical examination, it was discovered that petitioner was pregnant for about 25 weeks. 4. On 24.11.2025, petitioner was produced before Child Welfare Committee [“CWC”], Alipur, where, she expressed her wi