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With the development of pre-natal diagnostic techniques in the 1990s, finding out the sex of an unborn child became very common. This led to an increase in the cases of female foeticide and infanticide.
Sex Selection
This explainer discusses the crime of sex selection and the nature of the offences and the punishments specified under the law. It primarily deals with the law laid out in the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994, the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Rules, 1996, and the Indian Penal Code, 1860.
- What is sex selection?
- What are prenatal diagnostic procedures?
- Who does the law apply to?
- What does the law prohibit?
- When are prenatal diagnostic procedures permitted?
- What are the offences and punishments under this law ?
- Foeticide and Infanticide
- Where can prenatal diagnostic procedures be conducted?
- Who can you complain to about a breach of the law?