The minister said his department is serious about putting an end to female foeticide, due to which in just one year 23 cases were booked.
Dinesh Gundu Rao.
Karnataka Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao on Monday, 15 July, said the state government will strengthen the legislation concerned to ensure that doctors and quacks involved in female foeticide do not get bail easily. Rao said his department will hold discussions with the police department to make sure that such cases are booked under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994.