New Delhi, Dec. 21 -- The Delhi High Court has directed medical boards assessing requests for termination of pregnancy beyond 24 weeks to submit clear and specific reports detailing the exact gestational age, the victim's physical and mental fitness to undergo the procedure, and whether termination would pose any risk to the victim's life. A bench of justice, Swarana Kanta Sharma, in a December 15 ruling released on Saturday, said courts cannot rely on vague or qualified medical opinions while deciding such sensitive matters. "It is essential that the doctors concerned. give a clear and specific opinion, and not a vague or qualified opinion capable of being interpreted in more than one manner," the court said, noting that judicial authorities must necessarily depend on expert medical assessments to make informed decisions. In her 25-page verdict, the judge also issued directions to the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), mandating that investigating officers be provided complete physical copies of CWC orders in cases involving minor victims of sexual assault where termination of pregnancy is in question. The ruling came while hearing a petition filed in August by a 14-year-old minor rape survivor seeking termination of her 28-week pregnancy. The victim was raped by her cousin brother, who was also a minor and the son of her father's sister. htc...