FEMALE FOETICIDE: A CRY STILL UNHEARD

AUTHOR – SIMRAN VERMA, STUDENT AT DELHI METROPOLITAN EDUCATION

BEST CITATION – SIMRAN VERMA, FEMALE FOETICIDE: A CRY STILL UNHEARD, INDIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL REVIEW (IJLR), 4 (2) OF 2024, PG. 1072-1074, APIS – 3920 – 0001 & ISSN – 2583-2344.  

“Nowhere in the world can you find a place as safe as this”, said God to her. The very next day she was killed in her mother’s womb. Still practiced succeeding to the imposition of laws, Female Foeticide is a symptom of an underlying malady concerning the abortion of a girl child after getting acquainted with the sex of foetus. With families perceiving the birth of a daughter as an occasion with no social advantages and economic sense, and gender biasness towards a male child, India today is still reckoned with increasing cases of such a heinous act towards a girl child.