‘Set up district committees to check female foeticide’

Medical officer and a police officer not below the rank of Inspector,having minimum five years’ experience.

Since every offence under the PC & PNDT Act is non-bailable,the offender should be arrested and a regular FIR registered. He/She must then be presented before a Judicial magistrate (Ist class),the recommendations include.

George said the colloquium was of the view that whenever any ultrasound machine or other equipment are seized during the raid or detection of the crime,it should not be released to ensure that the erring person does not indulge in the crime again.

We have also recommended for at least 15 days’ training to CMOs and other officials relating to enforcement of the PC & PNDT Act,he added.

Earlier,Principal Secretary (Health),Deepak Sanan,said at the workshop that a nexus between the service seekers and

service providers has been responsible for the decline in the sex ratio.

The workshop,organised in the collaboration with United Nations Population Fund (UNPF),was inaugurated by Justice R.B.Mishra of Himachal Pradesh High Court at Himachal Institute of Public Administration.

Those who spoke today included Dr Sulakshana Puri,Director,Health,Himachal pradesh; Dr J.R.Gaur,Director Sciences Lab; and B.S.Chauhan,former sessions judge.Others who participated included Dhanushree from the UNFPA and Anubha Rastogi of the Human Rights Law Network),besides senior judicial and government officials,NGOs and private medical practitioners.