PCPNDT ACT, 1994

BY ADVOCATE DESH DEEPAK SINGH

 What is female feticide?

•Female feticide-
• aborting a female fetus after sex determination test
• ultra-sonography, helps determine abnormalities in
the fetus.
• misused to find out sex of the fetus and abort it if it is
a girl.
 Indian Penal Code, 1860

•Section 312 - Without analyzing the threat to the life of

women
•Section 313 - Without the consent of the women
•Section 314 - Trying to cause miscarriage and thereby
causing death
•Section 315 - An act done to prevent a child from being
born/ or born alive concealing the birth of a child
 Indian Penal Code, 1860

•Section 316:Act resulting in death of an unborn child

•Section 317:Mother or father abandoning the child

•Section 318:Secretly disposing body of child/

intentionally
 The Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic
Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act,
1994

•Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques include

•Ultra-sonography,
• Foetoscopy,

• Taking samples of amniotic fluid, embryo, blood or any

tissue or fluid of pregnant women before or after
conception,
 The Pre-conception and Pre-natal Diagnostic
Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act,
1994
•Imposes restrictions on:
• Clinics, medical personnel and sale of machine
• Only registeredgenetic clinics can use pre-
natal diagnostic techniques
• By qualified medical practitioner
• Prohibition of sex-selection
• Prohibition onsale of ultrasound machine to
unregistered laboratories, clinics & persons