The State PCPNDT (Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques) Supervisory Board, which met for the first time under Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao on Thursday, decided to write to the Home Department to depute an officer of the cadre of Deputy SP or Assistant Commissioner of Police to the State PCPNDT Task Force set up to curb female foeticide. This will be on the lines of a similar system being followed in Tamil Nadu.
In December, the Bengaluru police unearthed a prenatal sex determination racket across Bengaluru, Mandya, and Mysuru districts. They arrested a doctor and his lab technician who allegedly performed around 900 illegal abortions in the last three years.
Briefing reporters after the meeting, the Minister said four women legislators — Roopkala, Nayana Motamma, Latha Mallikarjun, and Umashree — are part of the Supervisory Board. The former three who attended the meeting on Thursday have made suggestions to intensify further measures to curb female foeticide.
