Just came across a report of Sukhbir Siwach on above topic in todays TOI (New Delhi edition), which states that Haryana Govt. failed to notify the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PNDT) Act in the official gazette and as a result different courts in the state have been forced to acquit five people booked under the Act, while 60 other medical practitioners caught in the past 12 years await their turn to walk free.
The Act is the chief statute to prevent illegal sex determination tests and female foeticide, rampant in Haryana and Punjab.
The Act was notified, a mandatory exercise before implementation of law, only on March 4, which made arrests made so far basically illegal, as government teams were not authorized to arrest doctors without gazette notification of the Act. Haryana government published the notification this year and Courts says the Act would be effective only from the date on which it is published. Anil Sabhani of Faridabad district was the first person in India to be convicted in 2005.
Now if this is the state of affairs of Haryana, can we think of a more balanced sex ratio which is already at the bottom among all states???