No conviction for causing miscarriage if child in womb full-grown or no expulsion of foetus from womb pre-term: Chhattisgarh High Court

Miscarriage involves the expulsion of a child from the womb before gestation is over, the Court explained, while acquitting a doctor in a case where the foetus of a deceased woman was found "safe and dead" in her womb.
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The Chhattisgarh High Court recently held that a person cannot be convicted for the offence of causing a miscarriage if the child in the mother's womb is full-grown or if there is no expulsion of the foetus from the womb before gestation is over [Rajesh Kumar vs State of Chhattisgarh]

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