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Female foeticide is 'mass carnage': HC
May 20, 2013
Coming down heavily on doctors carrying out sex determination tests, the Allahabad high court has said the law against it has not been effectively enforced in states like Uttar Pradesh. 

"The number of deaths of female children in the womb (female foeticide) in the last decade has exceeded the total deaths in the first and the second world war,", a division bench comprising Justices Sunil Ambwani and Manoj Kumar Gupta said in a judgement dated May 17.
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