Zonal commissioners of the Greater Bengaluru Authority will be appointed as Appropriate Authorities under the PCPNDT Act to ...

Bengaluru's Health Minister initiates review of the PCPNDT Act to address challenges in preventing female foeticide and related violations.

Maharashtra government is mulling stricter provisions under PCPNDT Act to curb female foeticide, with health department examining whether repeat offenders can be booked under MCOCA ...

Health minister Prakash Abitkar issued the orders after a review meeting to assess the enforcement of the PCPNDT Act, 1994.

Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has appointed nodal officers in every district to effectively prevent female foeticide and illegal sex determination of foetuses, Health Minister Dinesh ...

Supreme Court held that even if a raid under the PCPNDT Act was unauthorized by the full District Appropriate Authority, evidence collected during the search may still be admissible. As allegations ...

Mumbai, March 5: The Maharashtra government has decided to further strengthen the enforcement of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PCPNDT) Act to curb female foeticide across the ...

Pune: A joint team of the state health department and the Pune crime branch on Wednesday bust an alleged illegal foetal sex determination activity by .

The Supreme Court made the observation while dismissing a radiologist’s plea seeking quashing of criminal proceedings against him in a case alleging involvement in an illegal sex-determination.

Pune police arrested Dr. Akash Malgunde and agent Narendra Thakre for an illegal sex determination racket, seizing abortion ...

A prenatal sex determination test was allegedly carried out at Life Care Clinic in Shirur taluka, the Pune police said.

Eluru district registered 1,499 abortions in 2025, according to the Medical and Health Department, and the Collector has ordered a probe into the incidents. The district has 115 scanning centres, ...