In Brief
Sarmishtha Chakrabortty and her husband petitioned the Supreme Court under Article 32 seeking termination of the first petitioner's pregnancy, which at 25 weeks was endangering her mental and physical health. The Court constituted a Medical Board of senior doctors at SSKM Hospital, Kolkata to assess the petitioner's health and fetal condition. Upon receiving the Board's report confirming that continuation posed severe risks to the mother's mental and physical health, and that termination was medically necessary with acceptable institutional risk, the Court allowed the prayer and directed medical termination of pregnancy. The petition was disposed of.
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