A Study Of Pre-Conception And Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Law With Special Reference To Extra - Territorial Jurisdiction Of The Law

Mr. Ashish Shahi, A.P.N. Degree College Basti U.P., Siddartha University, Siddharth Nagar, Uttar Pradesh, India

Mr. Kamal Nayan Singh, Department of Law, School of Legal Studies, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University (A Central University) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

ABSTRACT

The modern diagnostic tools, plays an important role sex selection and determination and used for monitoring pregnancy and genetic defects; for example, the ultrasound machine, also has become a gender selective killing device of the female foetus. The preference of the male child in India and Indian Society was responsible for female foeticide. With availability and accessibility of such technologies, the Government of India reacted by enacting a stringent PC-PNDT Act almost solely aimed at doctors and family of female which want to aid and promote such evil act and to prevent them from advertising of such technologies and discloser the sex of the foetus to the any member or the mother foetus, and aim of the act is to prevent the sex determination and sex selection before or after conception and to maintain the disrupted gender ration in India.