HC rule over gender detection of unborn babies
Staff Reporter :
The High Court on Monday issued a rule upon the concerned bodies of the government to explain in six weeks as to why the failure of the respondents to frame guidelines to prevent gender detection of unborn babies should not be declared illegal.
At the same time, the court wanted to know in the rule to explain as to why a direction should not be passed against the respondents to frame guidelines to prevent gender detection of unborn babies.
The High Court Bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman passed the order after hearing a writ petition filed in this regard.
Health Secretary, Women and Children Affairs Secretary, Social Welfare Secretary, Director General of Directorate General of Health Services, Director General of Directorate General of Family Planning, Director General of Department of Women Affairs and Director General of National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT) have been asked to comply with the rule within six weeks.
Advocate Ishrat Hasan, a lawyer of the Supreme Court, filed the petition on January 26, 2020, with the High Court as public interest litigation seeking necessary directives from the court.
The lawyer herself and Barrister Abdul Halim took part in the hearing on behalf of the writ petition, while Assistant Attorney General MMG Sarwar Payel stood for the State.
“Recently Civil Surgeon Office of Brahmanbaria banned the determining an unborn child’s gender by ultrasonography in all government or private hospitals of Brahmanbaria. Ultrasonography done to learn a child’s gender was banned by various international organizations as well as the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, but there is no implementation as gender detection is not prohibited by laws,” read the petition.
The High Court on Monday issued a rule upon the concerned bodies of the government to explain in six weeks as to why the failure of the respondents to frame guidelines to prevent gender detection of unborn babies should not be declared illegal.
At the same time, the court wanted to know in the rule to explain as to why a direction should not be passed against the respondents to frame guidelines to prevent gender detection of unborn babies.
The High Court Bench of Justice M Enayetur Rahim and Justice Md Mostafizur Rahman passed the order after hearing a writ petition filed in this regard.
Health Secretary, Women and Children Affairs Secretary, Social Welfare Secretary, Director General of Directorate General of Health Services, Director General of Directorate General of Family Planning, Director General of Department of Women Affairs and Director General of National Institute of Population Research and Training (NIPORT) have been asked to comply with the rule within six weeks.
Advocate Ishrat Hasan, a lawyer of the Supreme Court, filed the petition on January 26, 2020, with the High Court as public interest litigation seeking necessary directives from the court.
The lawyer herself and Barrister Abdul Halim took part in the hearing on behalf of the writ petition, while Assistant Attorney General MMG Sarwar Payel stood for the State.
“Recently Civil Surgeon Office of Brahmanbaria banned the determining an unborn child’s gender by ultrasonography in all government or private hospitals of Brahmanbaria. Ultrasonography done to learn a child’s gender was banned by various international organizations as well as the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, but there is no implementation as gender detection is not prohibited by laws,” read the petition.
