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Ahmedabad doctor caught charging Rs 35,000 for illegal sex determination tests
3 months ago

Ahmedabad doctor caught charging Rs 35,000 for illegal sex determination tests

India Today  

A private hospital doctor in Ahmedabad was caught conducting illegal sex determination tests for Rs 35,000. A decoy patient recorded the entire process on his mobile phone, which was subsequently submitted to the health department and district panchayat authorities, according to Ahmedabad's district health officer, Shailesh Parmar. "It has been confirmed that sex determination tests were conducted for Rs 35,000," …

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Murder of twin girls in Delhi: Accused tried to force wife to abort after sex determination
5 months, 1 week ago

Murder of twin girls in Delhi: Accused tried to force wife to abort after sex determination

Hindustan Times  

The investigation into the murder of the two-day-old twin girls by their father last month has revealed horrifying details, including how the accused forced his wife to undergo a test at a sex determination test at a Noida clinic after paying a registered doctor ₹1.7 lakh, Delhi Police officers investigating the matter said on Thursday. The accused man, identified by …

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Karnataka govt transfers probe into sex determination racket to CID
1 year ago

Karnataka govt transfers probe into sex determination racket to CID

Hindustan Times  

The Karnataka government has transferred the investigation of a sex determination and illegal abortion racket to the Criminal Investigation Department. Police said 11 people, including two doctors, have been arrested so far; the accused conducted 242 abortions of female foetuses According to a statement from the chief minister’s office, the state government has assigned the CID the responsibility of investigation …

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Kharar: Private hospital’s doctor held for conducting sex determination test
1 year, 3 months ago

Kharar: Private hospital’s doctor held for conducting sex determination test

Hindustan Times  

Police have arrested three people, including a gynaecologist, for conducting prenatal sex determination test at Sukh Seva Hospital in Sunny Enclave, Kharar. A gynaecologist has been arrested for conducting sex determination test at Sukh Seva Hospital in Kharar. When Kavita sought to know the gender of the foetus, Rajinder took her to Dr Sarabjit for a sex determination test. All …

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Why Haryana government's efforts to improve sex ratio failed to bear fruit
1 year, 4 months ago

Why Haryana government's efforts to improve sex ratio failed to bear fruit

India Today  

The mid-year civil registration system data pertaining to the Sex Ratio at Birth in eight Haryana districts has come as a big blow to the state's flagship program to stop female infanticide. India Today's investigation has revealed how illegal sex determination tests were being conducted under the nose of the authorities, besides the smuggling of MTP kits in connivance with …

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Bombay High Court Restores Case Against Marathi Preacher Who Advised Couples To Have Sex On Even Dates To Conceive Male Child
1 year, 6 months ago

Bombay High Court Restores Case Against Marathi Preacher Who Advised Couples To Have Sex On Even Dates To Conceive Male Child

Live Law  

Religious discourse on techniques to conceive and identify a male foetus prima facie is an offence under the anti-sex determination PCPNDT Act, the Bombay High Court has held while refusing to quash a case against Marathi preacher Nivrutti Kashinath Deshmukh. Justice Kishore Sant observed that ‘ It would include anyone propagating techniques for foetus’s sex selection, the court said. “In …

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18 quacks held for running sex determination, abortion racket in Telangana's Warangal
1 year, 6 months ago

18 quacks held for running sex determination, abortion racket in Telangana's Warangal

India Today  

Police have arrested as many as 18 members of a gang that was running an illegal sex determination and abortion racket in Telangana’s Warangal without any educational qualification. Police also seized three scanners, 10 cell phones, and Rs 73,000 cash from their illegal unit in Venkateshwara Colony, Gopalpur. Warangal Police Commissioner AV Ranganath said police received a complaint about some …

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Illegal sex determination of co-accused’s foetus was conducted at Satara clinic
1 year, 7 months ago

Illegal sex determination of co-accused’s foetus was conducted at Satara clinic

Hindustan Times  

Further investigation into a recent case - wherein a doctor and two others were booked by the Jejuri police under various sections of the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostics and Medical Termination of Pregnancy Acts – has led the state health department to a diagnostic centre in Lonand village of Satara district found conducting illegal sex determination tests of unborn children …

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Illegal sex determination of co-accused’s foetus was conducted at Satara clinic
1 year, 7 months ago

Illegal sex determination of co-accused’s foetus was conducted at Satara clinic

Hindustan Times  

Further investigation into a recent case - wherein a doctor and two others were booked by the Jejuri police under various sections of the Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostics and Medical Termination of Pregnancy Acts – has led the state health department to a diagnostic centre in Lonand village of Satara district found conducting illegal sex determination tests of unborn children …

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Agra cops bust sex determination racket, 4 held
1 year, 8 months ago

Agra cops bust sex determination racket, 4 held

India Today  

The Agra Police, along with a team of health department officials, busted an illegal sex determination racket in a village near the Agra-Bharatpur border and arrested four culprits, including an ultrasound technician, on Sunday. Assistant Chief Medical Officer Dr SK Rahul told India Today that officials had received a tip-off two months ago about the sex determination racket that was …

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Punjab & Haryana High Court Grants Bail To Woman Allegedly Involved In Pre-Natal Sex Determination Activities
2 years, 5 months ago

Punjab & Haryana High Court Grants Bail To Woman Allegedly Involved In Pre-Natal Sex Determination Activities

Live Law  

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has recently granted regular bail to a woman booked under the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994, allegedly for accompanying the decoy witness to the place where the sex determination test was supposed to be conducted. After taking into consideration the facts and circumstances of the case, role played by the petitioner, along with the …

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Beti Bachao: Misuse of New Reproductive Techniques is Driving Male Child Preference in India
2 years, 10 months ago

Beti Bachao: Misuse of New Reproductive Techniques is Driving Male Child Preference in India

News 18  

In January 2019, the Delhi Health Department raided a Karol Bagh hospital accused of using Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, a form of Assisted Reproductive Technology that determines the sex of an embryo. UNPF estimates that each year, India misses nearly 4,00,000 female births because of sex selection, especially in states like Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana. That is to say, unregulated access of …

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Save girl child fight of Haryana suffers eight points dip in sex ratio at birth
2 years, 11 months ago

Save girl child fight of Haryana suffers eight points dip in sex ratio at birth

Hindustan Times  

The Haryana government’s flagship programme to stop female foeticide has registered an eight-point dip in sex ration at birth in 2021, according to official data. 914 female births per 1,000 males were recorded in 2021 against 922 in 2020 It is for the first time that the SRB, a critical indicator of gender equality, has dropped by eight points after …

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Delhi Govt To Take Strict Measures To Prevent Fetus Sex Determination, Says Health Minister Jain
3 years, 3 months ago

Delhi Govt To Take Strict Measures To Prevent Fetus Sex Determination, Says Health Minister Jain

News 18  

The Delhi government is taking strict measures to prevent misuse of techniques to determine sex of an unborn child and stop female foeticide, Health Minister Satyendar Jain said on Monday. “Chaired the Delhi Supervisory Board meeting of Pre-Conception & Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act. Delhi Govt is taking strict measures to prevent misuse of sex determination techniques & female foeticide. Read …

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30 Feminist Judgments Of 2020
3 years, 11 months ago

30 Feminist Judgments Of 2020

Live Law  

Orders Defending Women Rights 1. The right of a woman to secure a residence order in respect of a shared household cannot be defeated by the simple expedient of securing an order of eviction by adopting the summary procedure under the Senior Citizens Act, the bench comprising Justices DY Chandrachud, Indu Malhotra and Indira Banerjee observed in this case "Allowing …

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[Prenatal Sex Determination] Termination Of Female Foeticide Is Destruction Of Woman Of Future: Punjab & Haryana High Court [Read Order]
4 years, 1 month ago

[Prenatal Sex Determination] Termination Of Female Foeticide Is Destruction Of Woman Of Future: Punjab & Haryana High Court [Read Order]

Live Law  

Expressing its concern over the practice of prenatal sex determination, the Punjab & Haryana High Court on Friday observed that, "Considering the disdainful attitude of the society to a female child and use of diagnostic equipment for female foeticide Act was enacted to curb the pre-natal sex determination. Despite the specific legislation the menace of sex-based destruction of foetus continues …

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