{"id":3508,"date":"2003-09-15T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-15T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/09\/15\/2003-09-15-india-s-supreme-court-orders-ban-on-gender-determination-tests\/"},"modified":"2003-09-15T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-15T12:00:00","slug":"2003-09-15-india-s-supreme-court-orders-ban-on-gender-determination-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/09\/15\/2003-09-15-india-s-supreme-court-orders-ban-on-gender-determination-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s Supreme Court Orders Ban on Gender Determination Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Times of India<\/P><P>NEW DELHI, INDIA, September 11, 2003: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Centre and the state governments to swing into action and seize the unlicensed ultrasound machine s being used for sex determination purposes. It asked the authorities to strictly monitor the activities of ultrasound diagnostic clinics to prevent illegal female feticide. A Bench of Justices M. B. Shah and Ashok Bhan also said that it was an admitted fact that girls in India were being discriminated against and dowry was still prevalent. &#8220;With no change in the mindset about females, the sex determination tests add to the adverse situation,&#8221; the Bench said, adding: &#8220;The court would not be able to change the mindset of the population.&#8221; The judgment is a fallout of a public interest litigation filed by an NGO called the Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT) through its activist Sabu George, seeking implementation of the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulations and Prevention of Misuse) Act across the country. <BR><br \/>\n<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times of IndiaNEW DELHI, INDIA, September 11, 2003: The Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the Centre and the state governments,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}