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No end for female foeticides in India24 July, 2007: In a shocking discovery, the Orissa police on July 23, 2007, recovered as many as 30 polythene bags stuffed with female fetuses and the body parts of new-born babies from a dry well near a private clinic in Nayagarh, close to Bhubaneswar. Police have arrested the manager of the clinic. According to police sources, the body parts which included skulls and bones may have been dumped into the well soon after birth or abortion at the clinic. The incident brings back to light the oft-discussed issue of female foeticide. The country has enacted laws banning sex determination tests, but aborting female fetuses is still common in India. A report said that the police searched the well after seven female fetuses packed into polythene bags were found dumped in a deserted area in a nearby village in mid-July 2007. The police haven't ruled out a link between the two incidents and are suspecting a female foeticide racket. This discovery is just part of an
unending series of female foeticides
that have been happening in several
parts of the country. In June 2007, a
doctor was arrested on charges of
illegally aborting 260 female fetuses
after police recovered bones from the
septic tank in the basement of his
maternity clinic in the outskirts of
New Delhi.
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