Hit television show inspires village to fight female foeticide
Council vows to prosecute women who abort girls
Jaipur: Aamir Khan's highly acclaimed Satyameva Jayate has inspired the head of the council in a Rajasthan village to register police cases against women and families who go for tests to detect and abort female foetuses.
"Illegal sex determination is rampant in the Shekhawati region (Jhunjhunu, Churu and Sikar districts)," Randheer Singh of Budania village told IANS.
The village, some 200 kilometres from Jaipur has a population of 5,000.
Randheer Singh said a six-member committee had been formed to keep a tab on pregnant women.
"After watching Aamir Khan's television show Satyameva Jayate on female foeticide, I felt that awareness in Rajasthan is not enough," he said.
"If a woman is found involved in illegal sex determination and abortion of a girl child, an FIR (First Information Report) will be filed against her with the police," Singh said.
"If she is forced to abort by her in-laws, similar action will be taken against them also," he said.
In 2011, Rajasthan had 883 girls up to age six for every 1,000 boys. In 2001, it was 909 for every 1,000 boys.
