New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday (April 30) orally remarked that there is a need to amend the Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act for removing time limits for the legal termination of pregnancies resulting from rape of minor girls, reported LiveLaw.The top court made the remarks as a bench comprising Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justice Joymalya Bagchi was hearing a curative petition filed by All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi.The petition of AIIMS was against the directions issued by a two-judge bench to terminate the pregnancy, presently at 30 weeks, of a 15-year-old girl.During the hearing, when additional solicitor general Aishwarya Bhati said that the pregnancy has crossed the 24-week upper limit, CJI Kant said that that the law must be amended to remove the upper limit in cases of rapes of minors.“Please amend your law so that in cases of unwanted pregnancy on account of rape of a minor girl, the time limitation will not be there,” said CJI Kant, reported LiveLaw.The court observed that by the time a minor victim realises the development of pregnancy and becomes aware of the statutory remedies, the time limit will be over. The judges also said that many victims will be reluctant to disclose the matter, and therefore, remedies cannot be foreclosed in such a situation.The top court refused to entertain the plea of AIIMS and observed that the hospital cannot impose its decision on the minor, as it for the girl to decide whether to carry the pregnancy or to terminate it.CJI added that the law should be amended to ensure that trials in cases of child rapes are carried out at the earliest.The court told the ASG that the statutory limits are applicable only to doctors and cannot are not binding on the Court when the judiciary allows the termination of pregnancy in exercise of its powers under Article 142 of the Constitution.