M B SHAH Vs. S N VARIAVA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The Central Government is directed to create public awareness against the practice of prenatal determination of sex and female foeticide through appropriate releases/programmes in the electronic media. This shall also be done by the Central Supervisory Board ('CSB' for short) as provided under section 16(iii) of the PNDT Act.

(2.) The Central Government is directed to implement with all vigour and zeal the PNDT Act and the Rules framed in 1996. Rule 15 provides that the intervening period between two meetings of the Advisory Committees constituted under sub section (5) of section 17 of the PNDT Act to advise the appropriate authority shall not exceed 60 days. It would be seen that this Rule is strictly adhered to.

(3.) ALL State Governments/UT Administrations are directed to ensure that all State/UT appropriate authorities furnish quarterly returns to CSB giving a report on the implementation and working of the Act. These returns should inter alia contain specific information about: