Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 3: J&K Children’s Welfare Society (CWS) has expressed serious concern over the proposed recommendations of J&K State Supervisory Board (SSB) to amend the rules of existing PC& PNDT Act by inserting a clause in Rule 11(2) of PC&PNDT Rules, 2006, on the lines of amendment made by the Government of India.
The society alleged that that as per the present Act, the punishment is more stringent then the Board is proposing and hence reiterated its firm demand that perpetrators of female foeticide be booked under section 302, 120B of IPC/RPC besides other sections of IPC/RPC, which are prevalent at present.
The meeting of the Society held here under the chairmanship of S Gurdeep Singh Sasan, today, demanded deterrent and stringent law and exemplary punishment for the perpetrators of this heinous crime due to which the sex ratio of female is declining day by day. But the lenient view, which the Board has taken on the issue, will send a wrong signal and message to the perpetrators, the meeting said.
Terming the female foeticide as genocide, Sasan demanded that the perpetrators of this inhuman, barbaric and cruel crime be booked under the sections of present Act. He further urged the Government to make mandatory for every sonographic centre to go online regarding information of sonographic tests conducted on pregnant women.
He further asserted the Government to make sure that PC&PNDT Act is not misused to settle personal score, adding there is a need to go into the depth regarding certain practical problems being faced by medicos, which need to be redressed to make sure that no innocent person is victimized.
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