Abstract
The PNDT (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act was passed in the year 1996 in order to prevent misuse of sex determination technology for sex-selective abortion owing to increased female foeticide in India. Female foeticide is the killing of the foetus on the basis of parental determination of sex of the foetus if it is a girl child. Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes (CEHAT) vs. Union of India and Others is a 2003 Supreme Court judgement vis-a-vis Writ Petition (C) No. 301 of 2000 apropos effective implementation of Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1995. The case is a landmark judgement vis-a-vis fostering gender equality in the society as it outlawed the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques being misused in the country for sex-selective abortion. This Supreme Court criminalized the practice of pre-natal sex-determination to exterminate the menace of rampant female foeticide despite the Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1995 being in action. Therefore, this judgement is a path-breaking judgement as the supreme Court kept continued monitoring over the implementation of its orders to effectuate the provisions of the Pre-natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1995 in actuality.
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