illegal sex determination

Deep-rooted son preference fuels sex-selective abortions in India, leading to millions of fewer female births by 2030. Despite legal bans, illegal networks facilitate prenatal sex determination and terminations, driven by cultural pressures and financial anxieties. While some areas show slow improvement in sex ratios, demand for sons persists.

n an unprecedented move, Dehradun district administration has decided to reward anyone who helps the authorities in busting illegal sex-determination centres. Under the informer reward scheme, announced during the monthly meeting of pre-natal diagnostic techniques (PC-PNDT) team on Monday, an incentive of Rs 50,000 will be given for information on unregistered ultrasound centres.

An FIR has been registered against seven people for allegedly being involved in illegal sex determination testing at a rented property in Parite village, around 20 km from Kolhapur city. Of then seven accused, five have been arrested.

Following information, a team of Haryana health department, on Saturday, raided a nursing home in Ganaur, Sonipat, and caught the doctor who used to conduct illegal sex determination test.

After discussions on ways to check the skewed child sex ratio in the state, it’s time for action.

Kolhapur Superintendent of Police Shailesh Balkawade announced Monday the transfer of 18 police inspectors, 14 within Kolhapur district and four outside the district. Five assistant police inspectors, all of API rank, have also been transferred. The transfers were done to ensure administrative efficacy and to address law and order issues, Balkawade said. Some of the transfers and appointments were done based on requests from the officers involved. Ishwar Omase, of Rajarampuri police station, has been transferred to Kagal and he is being replaced by Anil Tanpuresneha Giri, who is now in charge of Panhala police station. Mahadeo Waghmode will lead the local crime branch in place of Sanjay Gorle, who is now being sent to Cyber Police Station. Police Inspector Audumber Patil has been posted with the Financial Crimes Bureau of Kolhapur police. Dattatray Nale of Juna Rajwada police station has been transferred to Ratnagiri police, while Bhudargad police station incharge, Pi Sanjay More, will now work with Sangli police. More's recent bursting of an illegal sex determination racket has led to the arrest of over 14 accused.

Three more people have been arrested in connection to the illegal sex determination racket in Karveer taluka’s Parite village in Kolhapur.

The district rural police on Friday booked three men, including a doctor, on the charge of indulging in illegal sex determination test. The other include a technician and a driver.

Private and government doctors were among 18 people arrested by police for conducting illegal sex determination tests and performing abortions in Warangal district.

A local court at Beed granted bail to Dr Saraswati Munde, wife of Dr Sudam Munde, both of whom were booked for illegally aborting the foetus of a woman that resulted in the latter's death.

They were convinced they had had a son. The truth was otherwise and a DNA test confirmed the couple had been blessed with a daughter, their third.

Well over two decades after the landmark legislation to halt sex determination tests came in force, Maharashtra has proved to be the most successful in its implementation.

The Karveer police have arrested Rani Kamble, 45, in connection with the illegal sex determination case.

The health department on Wednesday conducted an inter-state raid at a clinic in Bijnor in Uttar Pradesh and nabbed a doctor and three other people on charges of illegal sex determination.

Tightening the noose around errant clinics, where illegal sex determination tests are conducted, may not be enough to win the war against female feticide.

To keep tabs on illegal sex determination tests, the state is all set to launch a new ‘Active Tracer Technology’ device, which would be fitted in ultrasound machines.

The Kolhapur Police arrested two people on Sunday in connection with an illegal sex determination racket in Radhanagari and Bhudargad tehsils. The accused have been identified as Umesh Pawar, a doctor, and Amol Surve, an officer. The police say that with the new arrests, the total number of people held in connection with the racket has reached to 14. The doctors used to pay anything between Rs 5000 and 7000 to the agents for bringing pregnant women into the country.

The 2011 census revealed that Mehsana town has the lowest sex ratio in the country and district ranks second lowest in Gujarat.

In a joint operation with the district administration, a Ghaziabad health department team has arrested two persons for running a gender determination racket from a house based out of a Loni and seized a portable ultrasound device.

The South Goa district advisory committee constituted under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Technique (PNDT) Act will create mass awareness against illegal sex determination of the foetus.

The health department officials conducted a raid in a clinic in Pataudi and nabbed two quacks and a doctor for illegal sex determination of the foetus on Sunday. The team recovered Rs 45,000 and a portable ultrasound machine from them.

Haryana Police arrested five men and two women for conducting illegal sex determination tests of foetus in Yamunanagar.

In two separate cases, 35-year-old Vijay Lakshman Kolaskar and his aides were arrested from Madilge village in Bhudargad tehsil, and three people- Shrimant Patil and his aides- were arrested from Kasba Walve village in Radhanagari tehsil. Undercover patients were sent to confirm the illegal sex determination, and the premises were raided on Tuesday. Police Inspector of Bhudargad tehsil Sanjay More said the accused were presented before the local court on Wednesday and have been remanded in 10-day police custody.