Summary:
It had banned pre-natal sex determination. Section 22 of the PCPNDT Act pertains to prohibition of advertisements relating to pre-natal determination of sex and punishment for contravention. The PCPNDT Act was enacted to stop female foeticides and arrest the declining sex ratio in India. File photomore-inThe government on Tuesday informed the Supreme Court that it has set up a nodal agency to redress complaints seeking deletion of materials violating Indian laws prohibiting pre-natal sex determination, from search engines and websites. The court was hearing a petition by Sabu Mathew George, a doctor who is seeking the apex court’s intervention in view of the falling sex ratio in the country..