India, Jan. 30 -- The Bombay high court on Wednesday ordered the audit of all civic-run maternity homes within the limits of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and named an eight-member panel of eminent doctors for the exercise. The bench of justices Revati Mohite-Dere and Dr Neela Gokhale directed four teams of two doctors each from the panel to visit maternity homes for a social audit and submit a report to the court within eight weeks.

The court was hearing a plea filed by the husband of a 26-year-old woman who passed away in April 2024 due to complications while delivering a baby at a BMC-run maternity home in Bhandup.

The widower claimed that the maternity home lacked adequate facilities, doctors performed the surgical pr...