The Bombay High Court on Friday allowed a 33-year-old woman, who is in her 30th week of pregnancy, to undergo an abortion, after a medical test revealed that the foetus has a developmental birth defect.

A division bench of judge AS Oka and judge AS Gadkari also granted the woman's request to undergo the abortion at a private clinic in Nashik. On the high court's direction, doctors at the government-run J J Hospital had examined her and approved the abortion at such a late stage, considering the condition of the foetus. However, the government had opposed her request to undergo the abortion at the Nashik clinic.