Story highlights Girl was allegedly raped repeatedly by her uncle, who has been arrested

Under Indian law, abortion is not allowed after 20 weeks

New Delhi (CNN) India's Supreme Court on Friday rejected a plea by a 10-year-old rape victim to have an abortion.

The high court's judges said they could not allow a termination to the pregnancy because "abortion was neither good for the girl nor for the fetus," according to the Hindustan Times.

India has a ban on terminating pregnancies that progress beyond 20 weeks. Under India's Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act, the country doesn't allow abortion after that period unless "the termination of such pregnancy is immediately necessary to save the life of the pregnant woman."

In this case, the pregnancy was reported by the family to the police between 26th and 27th week of pregnancy, according to the victim's lawyer, Alakh Alok Srivastava, who took the case to India's Supreme court.

"So in this case when the pregnancy was reported, it was already too late," Srivastava told CNN.

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