The Bombay High Court on Monday dismissed a petition filed by a 20-year-old woman seeking to terminate her pregnancy claiming it would have a detrimental effect on her mental health.

The petitioner, a college student, in her 24th week of pregnancy, had said that though the foetus did not have any known medical abnormalities, the state of her own mental health was not such that she could carry the pregnancy to full term and raise a child.