Illegal sex determination tests are giving rise to Human Trafficking: Court

Observing that the illegal sex determination tests are giving rise to human trafficking, a court in New Delhi has urged exercising of zero tolerance in female foeticide cases.

"Of the 12 million girls born in India, one million do not see their first birthdays" and as a result of this human trafficking has become common in various states of India where teenage girls are being sold for cheap money by poor families, being treated as sex objects with more than half of such cases going unreported says Additional Sessions Judge Kamini Lau

On october 2010, Police has lodged an FIR against Dr. Sunil Fakey and Uryashi Fakey under the provisions of Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulations and Prevention of Misuse) Act, commonly known as PNDT Act, and Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act in Ashok Vihar in west Delhi.

On July 2014, The court order came on a revision plea filed by two doctors, Sunil Fakey and Urvashi Fakey seeking discharge in a case filed against them for carrying out illegal sex determination test. While dismissing the plea of doctors, the court said: "This is a harsh social and national reality and a court of law cannot shut its eyes to the same.". It noted that there are thousands of such clinics where such illegal activities of sex determination and abortions are carried out on a daily basis and in some cases, in connivance with politicians, police and other local authorities.

On the other side,

According to Statistician,  nearly 10 million female foetuses have been aborted in the India over the past two decades. 

The judge cited the United Nations' World Population Fund reports which indicate that India has one of the highest sex imbalances in the world and the demographers warn that there will be a shortage of brides in the next 20 years because of the adverse juvenile sex ratio.

Factors influencing the Human Trafficking varies from one country to another, In some cases, illegal sex determination tests, tends to vulnerable to trafficking. Some of the factors are local condition. In order to address the trafficking effectively experts believes in use of latest technologies  which consider the route cause of the Human Trafficking and factors influencing it.

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(Ref: http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/human-trafficking-rising-due-to-female-foeticide-court-1602421.html)