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Intersex infants: HC gives govt time to consider Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights’s view

NEW DELHI: Delhi High Court has granted eight weeks to Delhi government to take an “appropriate decision” on a recommendation by Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR) to ban medically unnecessary sex-selective surgeries on intersex infants except in cases of life-threatening situations.

A bench headed by chief justice Satish Chandra Sharma disposed of a petition by an NGO seeking a ban on such procedure and said that the petitioner if aggrieved by the decision of the government, shall be free to file a fresh plea.

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