Communicating genuine concern over the skewed sex proportion in the nation, the Supreme Court on Tuesday said disappointment from the Center and the states to keep a tab on healing centers and symptomatic focuses was the boss motivation behind why female foeticide proceeded with wildly in spite of a boycott two decades prior.
A seat headed by Justice Dipak Misra addressed why the 2011 Census was all the while being depended for citing sex proportion when an inquiry was consistently looked for in 2014.
“I don’t think we ought to hold up for an alternate statistics which will come following 10 years. There ought to be some system to learn the proportion, no less than, each interchange year,” the seat said. The court, surprisingly, additionally looked for year-wise information about persons indicted for the offense as such.
The court got some information about the status of execution of the Pre-origination and Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act of 1994, which banned sex determination of hatchling and female foeticide, and endorsed errant specialists be rebuffed.
Justice Misra further sought answers to whether the states have any plan to give individual incentives to families for saving the girl child. “A girl child has every right equivalent to a male child to live on the face of the Earth,” the judge noted.
The court order came after a supreme court-appointed inspection panel-National Inspection and Monitoring Committee(NIMC)-submitted a report in the court which said female foeticide continued unabated in India and the apex court-appointed mechanism menace “almost collapsed” due to non-cooperation by the states.