DR. NEELA GOKHALE, JJ.

DATE : 28^th JULY 2025.

P.C.:-

1. The Petitioners seek a direction that the Petitioner No.1 is free to undertake medical termination of pregnancy without disclosing the name and identity of the Petitioner No.2, who is a minor girl by placing reliance on the decision of the Supreme Court in X. v. The Principal Secretary, Health and Family Welfare Department, Government of NCT, Delhi & Anr. reported in (2022) 7 SCR 686.

2. Heard the learned counsel for the parties.

3. We have perused the judgment of the Supreme Court as aforesaid. Para 81 of the said judgment reads thus;

“81. To ensure that the benefit of Rule 3B(b) is extended to all women under 18 years of age who engage in consensual sexual activity, it is necessary to harmoniously read both the POCSO Act and the MTP Act. For the limited purposes of providing medical termination of pregnancy in terms of the MTP Act, we clarify that the RMP, only on reques