The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider listing the plea of an unmarried woman who was not allowed by the Delhi High Court to undergo medical termination of pregnancy at 23 weeks arising out of a consensual relationship. The High Court, while hearing the plea last Friday, had observed that it virtually amounts to killing the foetus.

A Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice of India N V Ramana, Justice Krishna Murari and Justice Hima Kohli was told by the woman's lawyer that the plea needed an urgent hearing keeping in mind the facts of the case. "Just now we have been given papers. Let us see," the bench said.