Lucknow, June 6 -- The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court has granted permission to a minor victim from Hardoi to have an abortion. The court directed the King George's Medical University administration to provide a safe abortion for her at government expense.

A division bench of Justice Rajesh Singh Chauhan and Justice Divesh Chandra Samant passed the order on June 4 on a petition filed by the minor victim through her father. The petition requested an abortion for the minor victim at government expense.

The petitioner stated that the accused had lured and abducted the minor, during which she became pregnant. The medical report revealed that the victim was 21 weeks and two days' pregnant.

The court directed the Hardoi chief medi...