Kumble accused of forgery:Wife’s ex-husband says cricketer pretended to be his daughter’s dad

Kumble accused of forgery:Wife’s ex-husband says cricketer pretended to be his daughter’s dad
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Kumar V Jagirdar, the ex-husband of cricketer Anil Kumble’s wife Chethana, has accused the duo of forging his signature to get the passport of his and Chethana’s daughter reissued.

Jagirdar, a stock broker, has filed a complaint with Bharathinagar police. He has stated that his daughter’s passport expired in 2009 and in April 2011, his ex-wife applied for passport renewal.

Jagirdar told DNA that he did not get a response from Chethana when he sought to know the developments regarding the passport’s renewal.

Jagirdar said he recently learnt that Chethana had applied for reissuing the child’s passport. Jagirdar said he was shocked upon learning this since as the biological father, his involvement is mandatory in the reissue of her passport. Hence, he filed an application under the Right to Information Act (RTI), seeking documents regarding his daughter’s passport-reissue application.

Jagirdar added that both the mandatory documents needed to issue passport to a minor require signatures of the biological father.

When he procured a copy of these documents, he discovered that somebody else had signed where his sign was required. He alleged that the signature is of Anil Kumble.

He added that he procured a copy of the cricketer’s passport, too, through RTI and noted that the signature on it resembles the signature on the application for their daughter’s passport. Further, Jagirdar said a copy of Kumble’s passport has been attached as the father’s passport.

Jagirdar alleged that Anil Kumble has pretended to be the biological father of his daughter and impersonated him by affixing his own signature where Jagirdar’s signature was required.

Further, Jagirdar said he had trusted his ex-wife to keep him informed about the developments regarding his daughter’s passport, in accordance with the court’s order.

Jagirdar said Kumble and Chethana have committed a serious offence, which amounts to forgery, misappropriation and impersonation, apart from other offences punishable under Indian Passport Act and various provisions of Indian Penal Code.

Bharathinagar police have registered a case and are investigating.

Kumar V Jagirdar (left) and Anil Kumble

President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari to become father of all 'unknown parentage' kids or "Adam and Eve"

Zardari to become father of all 'unknown parentage' kids

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/zardari-to-become-father-of-all-unknown-parentage-kids-112567

June 16, 2011

Islamabad:  President Asif Ali Zardari has asked Pakistan's national database to use his name as the father's name in official documentation for children of unknown parentage, a top official has said.

The move is an attempt to legalise the status of a large number of children who were born legally but whose parentage is unknown, National Database and Registration Authority Chairman Malik Tarek said.

   

NADRA plans to issue identity cards to thousands of children of unknown parentage, a majority of whom were dropped by their parents at welfare centres, Tarek told The Nation daily.

   

A large number of such children arrived at welfare centres after losing their parents in the 2005 earthquake and last year's devastating floods, he said.

   

NADRA was at a loss about filling the registration forms for such children as it is mandatory to mention the name of the father and mother, he added.

   

"When it came to the knowledge of President Zardari, he voluntarily offered his name to be used in the father's name box for such people," Tarek said.

   

"I want you to make a strategy to make thousands of children with unknown parentage responsible citizens of the state. NADRA can mention my name as father of all such

children to issue them identity cards," Tarek quoted Zardari as saying.

   

In order to deal with the sensitive and complex issue of children of unknown parentage, NADRA approached different schools of Islamic thought in countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran and some suggested that "Adam and Hawa (Adam and Eve)" should be named as the father and mother of such children.

"We took fatwa from leading Islamic institutions and scholars of Saudi Arabia and Iran to deal with the issue," Tarek said.

   

NADRA also consulted social workers like Abdus Sattar Edhi, chief of the Edhi Foundation.

   

Welfare centres where the children are living will be named as their guardian, Tarek said.

   

Pakistan has no law on the rights of illegitimate children, including their financial entitlement or inheritance, legal experts said.    

They suggested the government should organise a conference to discuss how to register illegitimate children as they too have a right to good education and jobs.
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1) Who will be the Father and Mother of Illegitimate Children of Christian Faith in the Birth Certificate?
ADAM and EVE
2)Who will the Father and Mother of Illegitimate Children of Islamic Faith?
ADAM and HAWA
3) Who will the Father and Mother of Illegitimate Children of Hindu faith?
MANU and MRS MANU

Why doesn't the Government of India similarly put the
Father's Name: PRIME MINISTER MANMOHAN SINGH(or ALPHA MALE LEADER like A B VAJPAYEE)and Mother's Name: President Pratibha Patil or LEADER OF CONGRESS PARTY (SONIA GANDHI)

Press Release for Father's Day Rally by CRISP on 18 June 2011

Press Release for Father's Day Rally by CRISP

 PRESS RELEASE

 CRISP is an NGO formed in 2008, by people who recognize the serious effects of Parental Alienation of children due to single parent families on account of divorce or separation. CRISP fights against alienation of children from their parent(s) in the ever increasing divorce/ separation rates in the social realities of our contemporary society. CRISP also focuses on furthering the rights of children to remain connected with both biological parents. We are a pro-family and a pro-life organization, our aims and objectives are to promote family harmony in our society and are based on research findings. We are a large group of people from all walks of life, like software engineers, doctors, teachers, businessmen, social workers, etc. which includes women and senior citizens, to address this burning issue in our society.

CRISP has organized National Father's Day Rally on Saturday, the 18th June, 2011 between 10:00 AM and 1:00 PM at TOWN HALL STEPS, JC ROAD, Bangalore, to demand FAMILY LAW REFORMS, highlight the grievances of Fathers deprived of access to their children and children to their fathers due to biased laws and failure of our  judicial, legislative and executive systems on all fronts on this sensitive matter and a serious human rights issue, this protest dharna is on behalf of our children, who are voiceless victims & protect their rights to be connected to both biological parents.

Father's Day is celebrated worldwide to honor the contribution of ‘Fathers’. In India also the Father's day is being celebrated since many years as an expression of love and tribute to the Fathers. Present day fathers are actively involved in parenting their children in every way and in all spheres of their development. In the changed scenario of our family system, especially in cities the role of the father is paramount and must be recognized equally along with the Mother. Shared parenting is the only solution for the normal growth of children whose parents are separated.

Divorce rates are unfortunately going up substantially (over 30% and increasing) year on year, especially in educated & urban class people. There are more than 17,000 cases in the Family Courts of Bangalore alone, pending disposal and lakhs of cases still pending in various cities in our country. CRISP is concerned with the growing custody battles between the parents and the ill effects on the children due to their parents' separation. We speak for the rights of the innocent impacted Children who are deprived of the love and affection of both their natural parents and shared parenting is the only alternative arrangement to spend quality time with both its natural parents, since parents divorce is inevitable in the present day world & lifestyle of people

The traditional Indian Value system has undergone a sea change from the olden days where the mother was the nurturer and the father a provider to the child. Present day fathers are actively involved, physically and emotionally in parenting children and are equally competent in taking care of the needs of the child and take on the responsibilities of child upbringing and are in no way inferior to the mother. The anti-father mindset is not valid, but still persists in our archaic and cruel systems. Typically in divorce and separation cases, one of the parents, out of revenge against the other parent deprives the child of the love, affection and care of the other parent. This is one of the worst forms of child abuse, as the children suffer the consequences of permanent psychological damage from resulting disorders like Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) and Reactive Associative Disorders that warp a child’s development. Studies have shown that there is a tendency for such children to become criminals in their later years, for which the society and our system are directly responsible. Please see CRISP website http://www.crisp-india.org for details.

Child Rights Initiative for Shared Parenting (CRISP), demands the following immediate Family Law reforms:

1.      Grant immediate and equal (child) access to separated parents who are keen to take care of their children as a practice. Legislate law to make this mandatory.

2.      Conduct compulsory counseling on SHARED PARENTING to educate parents of its benefits for the welfare of the child, before family courts grant the decree of divorce.

3.      Punish people who misuse laws, particularly 498A (Dowry Act) and Domestic Violence Act as a tool to deprive the father & his family members of child access.

4.      Set up special courts to deal with child custody cases and address problems faced by parents deprived of any visitation/joint custody as top priority.

5.      All custody/ visitation cases should be disposed off, within 3 months of application in the family courts in the best interest of children.

6.      Ban child interviews when the children are of tender age, which have not had adequate access with the non-custodial parent.

7.      Parents who don't follow court orders pertaining to children should be punished as per law and also declared unfit to be a guardian for the child.

8.      CRISP urges a separate Union Ministry for Children and to de-link the same from the present Women and Child Development ministry, since the objectives are different.

9.      Employ psychologists / child psychologists as Mediators in mediation centers & discourage lawyers acting as mediators.

10.  Create a Family Court website and make available all the information on this (emulate the High Court example) the case list in the previous day.

11.  India must accede to United Nation's Convention of International Parental Child Abduction, which is long overdue.

12.  Provide a crèche and children’s area in the family court premises where childcare can be provided and child-parent bonding & companionship promoted. This also ensures immediate access to the deprived parent & tender age children and helps in their bonding.

13.  Evening courts should be set up so that litigants need not have to apply for leave in matrimonial disputes.

14.  Implement RTI act seriously in family court matters.

CRISP’s Achievements 

1.    CRISP was invited by the parliament recently where we successfully presented our recommendations on issues pertaining  to child rights and welfare on account of irretrievable breakdown of marriages and on female feticide in the years 2010 & 2011

2.    Educated the system about the concept of SHARED PARENTING and its advantages in various part of the country through seminars and workshops.

3.    More then 10,000 members across the globe and growing.

4.    Weekly meetings successfully launched various centers in the country to give mutual support in counseling and legal awareness.

5.    National Commission for Protection Child Rights (NCPCR) a Government of India undertaking has appreciated CRISP for educating the society and legal fraternity on the significance of Shared Parenting

6.    Launched website: www.crisp-india.org where average visitor rate exceeding more then 1000 & victims make use of the knowledge and information posted on the web-site and which is the first of its kind in the country pertaining to child custody matters.

7.    Even mothers who have been deprived of child custody are members of CRISP and working for its goals of Joint custody and Shared Parenting.

8.    We have successfully prevented many suicide attempts of deprived fathers by counseling from our NGO experts & got them the child visitation rights.

9.    CRISP has made a representations to Chief Justice of India, WCD Ministry and law commission signed by over 700 people requesting shared parenting among others and awaiting suitable action from the concerned authorities and also to adhere to UN's Child's Rights Convention.

As per the research done by the multiple organizations across the globe, it reveals shocking information, that children deprived of their Father’s care are:

·         5 times more likely to commit suicide

·         9 times more likely to dropout of high school

·         14 times more likely to end up as Rapist

·         20 times more likely to end up in Prison or  become drug addicted

·         32 times more likely to runaway from home.

There is no doubt that fathers’ involvement in child care cannot be substituted by anybody in the world. “A Father is better than hundred teachers!" Joint custody and SHARED PARENTING are the BEST SOLUTIONS in divorce and parental separation.

Even though children constitute about 40% of country’s population, they are voiceless victims thus to create public awareness on this highly sensitive subject and human rights issue, We appeal & invite our media friends to kindly grace this occasion and rededicate ourselves to save the children from fatherless-ness and save their childhood & ensure their happiness since they are the future assets of the nation & media plays very important role in educating the citizens and various social organizations.

Speakers for the press conference are:

·         Kumar V Jahgirdar  (President)

·         Sivakumar Challa (Secretary)

·         Jayanth T.K (Counselor)

·         Avinash Kumar (Counselor)

·         Roshni Mathan (Social Activist)

Thanking You,

Kumar V Jahgirdar

President CRISP,

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Annexure Attachment on Child Psychology Report and Statistics upon request

Kumar Jahagirdar bowls googly at Anil Kumble. ex-wife says"You are not Family!"

Kumar Jahagirdar bowls googly at Anil Kumble. ex-wife says"You are not Family!" 

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After family court granted Kumble custody of child, biological father approached HC questioning the order, which in turn directed issuance of emergency notice to the former cricketer.

The decade long legal battle over custody of a child between Anil Kumble's family and the child's biological father Kumar Jahagirdar continues, as the latter approached the High Court questioning the family court order.

Based on the HC's direction, an emergency notice has been issued to the respondents and the next hearing will be held following their response.

Not eligible: The Family Court earlier rejected Jahagirdar's application stating that he was not entitled to custody on the ground that there was no female member living with him to look after the child.

In his petition, Jahagirdar contended that the family court, over sighted Supreme Court while passing the order dated January 29, 2004. The SC observed that the prospect of the arrival of a second child in the respondent's family is another circumstance, which would be in favour of the child.

Basis of questioning

However, after the birth of the second and thereafter the third child, the respondent (Chetana) and her present husband (Anil Kumble) had become non-cooperative in implementing the Apex Court's directions.

Further, Jahagirdar, who had no other children through his second wife, could have bestowed his undivided attention, natural love and affection, as against the respondents who was busy and preoccupied with bringing up their two infant children, which would result in the neglect of the appellant's only daughter.

The Family Court earlier rejected Jahagirdar application stating that he was not entitled to custody on the ground that there was no female member living with him to look after the child. Considering this, Jahagirdar married Dr Savitha, despite which custody was rejected citing 'stepmother' as the reason.

No contact

Jahagirdar further contended that the court did not allow him any contact with his daughter for five months before she was called to testify before the court, while deciding on custody.

"During this period, the respondents constantly brainwashed and tutored the child to get the order in their favor. Based on the child's deposition, the court decided to handover the custody rights to Kumble and even passed derogatory remarks against me," Jahagirdar said.

Reacting to this, the Kumble's advocate C V Nagesh said that they are ready to face the challenge.

"Litigation is like two faces of a coin. Had we been in the appellant's position, we too would have approached the HC if we had lost the case. However this will ultimately serve no purpose and its unfortunate that the child has to bare the brunt," Nagesh said.

Abortion laws to become more stringent in India: CRISP recommendations

Abortion laws to become more stringent 

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New Delhi: A high-level meeting convened by the Prime Ministers office on Friday to consider urgent strategies to tackle Indias sliding child sex ratio will look at the possibility of making abortions subject to checks like mandatory counselling and medical advice.

Government studies of the alarming data on the state of the girl child thrown up by the 2011 census found that Indias no-questions-asked abortion policy,while being prochoice and an empowering option for women,was being misused to legally abort female fetuses.

Victims of a powerful son philosophy,women were pressured by their families after illegal scanning showed a female child to go in for abortions.This was aggravating the effect of illegal or backstreet abortions carried out by unscrupulous doctors or quacks after the first trimester of pregnancy.

The census figures for the overall sex ration and child population in the 0-6 age group revealed girls were subject to a double-whammy.Females were not only aborted before birth but also victims of prejudice after birth.Girls are discriminated against with regard nutrition,medical attention and general care as compared to male children.

While government is keen to implement the pre-conception and pre-natal diagnostic techniques (prohibition of sex selection) act that makes sex determination a crime more strictly than is the case,it is looking at more innovative strategies to address the unbroken decline in Indias sex ratio since 1961.
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Critical analysis and Recommendations on Petition praying for urgent need to curb female foeticide

Presented to Rajya Sabha Committee on 23 March 2011 by Kumar Jahgirdar, Roshni Mathan Pereira, Sivakumar Challa [Other discussions are Privileged Motion]]

Prepared by multi-disciplinary experts

CRISP has presented the view of Conservative, Pro-life and Gender-neutral members of society.

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Critical analysis and Recommendations on Petition praying for urgent need to curb female foeticide       

Honorable Members of the Committee,

This memorandum is in response to your call for feedback, comments and suggestions on “Petition praying for urgent need to curb female foeticide”. We would also like to request for an opportunity to present our suggestions and recommendations on this issue. We humbly request for an opportunity to depose in front of the esteemed committee.

We represent CRISP, an acronym for Children’s Right Initiative for Shared Parenting. CRISP is a registered, pro-family, pro-life, Non Governmental Organization (NGO) founded by a group of citizens, who are concerned about child abuse, abortions (foeticide) of children (irrespective of gender and not medically indicated) and alienation of one spouse from children during divorce or separation. We feel the unborn child has the unquestionable right to life. CRISP also focuses on furthering the rights of a child to remain connected with both parents (consent of both parents for abortion-mandatory). We recommend that The MTP Act 1971 (amended 2002) includes a detailed counseling process, information of Risks, benefits & alternatives, counseling process by the Medical practitioner, and written informed consent by both husband and wife (for married persons).

We have studied the female foeticide problem since several years and we have following suggestions and recommendations regarding this petition:

1.      The data presented by the petitioners is questionable. This data is downloaded from a commercial website Indiastat.com and this specimen data is also available from the website mis-quoted from. Refer the URL¹: http://www.indiastat.com/7/specimen.aspx

The Census has shown an increase in the sex ratio of total population from 927 in 1991 to 933 in 2001. Refer to the URL²: http://censusindia.gov.in/Census_And_You/gender_composition.aspx

The same reference above says that “according to United Nation estimates, the world had 986 females against 1000 males in 2000”. Humans have a Fisherian natural sex ratio of 1.1 boys to 1 girls at birth. In humans, the sex ratio at birth is 909 girls for every 1000 boys. Available from the URL³: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sex_ratio

In humans, the secondary sex ratio is commonly assumed to be 105 boys to 100 girls or 952 girls for every 1000 boys. Refer to the URL⁴: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_ratio

The results of the petition are therefore of propaganda value, inaccurate and needs further substantiation from Census results provided by the Government of India. The Government must wait for the latest census-2010 figures for the accurate “sex ratios at birth Statistics” across states and across urban and rural India.

2)      Most Indian parents feel burdened about expenses for daughter’s marriage apart from dowry. India is one of the rare countries in the world, where parents take pride in spending for their children’s marriage and often parents are socially forced to spend huge sums of money for children’s marriage. This social practice has to be curbed. Today, even in hugely populated country like China, which has family system similar to ours, the parents rarely spend for the marriage of their children. Government must pass laws to curb this social practice, which is the root of female foeticide problem. It is to be noted that often marriage expenses in themselves can be much more than any dowry exchange that takes place.

3)      The Inheritance laws should implemented in letter and spirit of the law, for equal share of property of parental/ancestral property. The non-implementation of inheritance acts is the root cause for the evils of dowry system and its repercussions (Misuse of Section 498a).

4)      We strongly oppose the request of petitioners to provide reservations for women in private and public sector jobs. We are also opposed to reservations for women in politics, in education and in jobs. Reservations are like curing symptoms of a disease, while the disease remains uncured. We feel reservations for women anywhere will not solve their problems and will instead result in many unforeseen indirect problems. The disconnected prayer for ‘women reservations’ for a cause like ‘female foeticide’ takes away the seriousness of foeticide.

5)      Government must initiate pro-life, pro-family policies. The highly liberals abortion laws in India are partly responsible for foeticide (irrespective of gender). In many western countries, the abortion laws are stricter than India and there are serious anti-abortion lobbies, who believe it is their moral duty to save life of every unborn child. In many states in United States of America, the abortion laws are stricter than India.

Unfortunately in India, even the religious leaders (Hindu, Muslim or Christian) have shown little interest in opposing the very liberal abortion culture. Any abortion culture is genocide. Government must take a stricter stand on the entire abortion issue, as done by many Governments in Western countries.

6)      At present, there are not centralized records of pregnancies and abortions in India. We recommend that all pregnancy-related events like abortions be NOTIFIABLE events to Government authorities. This gives too much freedom to doctors and medical practitioners and they have the freedom to abort the children, once the gender of the child is determined. When all pregnancies and abortions are registered, it will become much difficult for medical practitioners to perform abortions and get away from the law.

7)      We agree with the petitioners that the manufacture and import of portable handheld ultra-sound machines must be prohibited in India and people violating it must be severely punished.

Recommendations of CRISP for Prevention of Female Foeticide:

1)      Registrations of all pregnancy-related events (Pregnancy, Abortions, Still-births) in centralized database, so that abortions can be tracked. The doctors and medical practitioners who do not register pregnancies and abortions into this central database must be severely punished. Strong punitive action has to be taken against Parents involved in female foeticide, with abettors (Abortion centres) given equal quantum of punishment.

2)      A new law has to be enacted to curb high marriage spending by parents. No parent should spend more than 6 month’s income for marriage of a son or daughter. This will not only curb marriage expenses, but also check the dowry menace. Inheritance laws have to be strictly implemented.

3)      Government must initiate pro-life policies to discourage mindless abortions in the first place. Mandatory counseling must be given to women, couples and families in case they choose to abort an unborn child. Medical practitioners and doctors must be made to cooperate with this mandatory counseling by special counseling centers in urban India.

4)      The reservations for women in jobs in public or private sector is a disconnected, unrelated event to the problem of female foeticide.

5)      Government (Ministry for Women and Children’s Welfare) must spend Rupees 40 Crores every year in media advertisement campaigns against dowry and extravagant marriages. The goal should be to completely eliminate marriage spending by parents in next 5 to 7 years.

6)      People must be educated through mass awareness campaigns that a son can bring more tears to parents than a daughter.

7)      The misuse of portable ultra sound scanning machines must be prohibited and the violators must be severely punished.

8)      A separate Union Minister has to be set up for Child Rights & Welfare, as roughly 40% of the population are minor children. This has to be delinked from the Women & Child Development Ministry.

References:

1.      Sex ratio. Available from the URL: http://www.indiastat.com/7/specimen.aspx

2.      Census of India. 2001. Available from the URL: http://censusindia.gov.in/Census_And_You/gender_composition.aspx

3.      Human sex ration. Available from the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sex_ratio

4.      Sex ratio. Available from the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_ratio

5.      Role of men in families. United Nations. Available from the URL: http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/family/docs/men-in-families.pdf

6.      All India Daughters Protection Forum. Available from the URL: http://allindiadaughtersprotectionforum.blogspot.com/

7.      Childrens Rights Initiative for Shared Parenting (CRISP). Available from the URL: http://www.crisp-india.org/

8.      Abortion laws. Available from the URL: http://legalservicesindia.com/article/print.php?art_id=299

Appendix

S. No.	Law	Lapses	Recommendations
1	MTP Act 1971, amended 2002	Husband’s consent is not necessary for Abortions done for married women. Consent of the following kinds is required before a legal abortion by an approved practitioner can be conducted on a pregnant female: If married--- her own written consent. Husband’s consent not needed. If unmarried and above 18years ---her own written consent. If below 18 years ---written consent of her guardian. If mentally unstable --- written consent of her guardian.	For married women, wife & husband’s Joint consent to be obtained for abortions mandatorily after a detailed counseling process. Culpable Liability of ‘Female foeticide’ will therefore be borne equally by both parents. This will make the law pro-family.
2	In Satya v Siri Ram, Supreme Court held that termination of pregnancy twice at instance of wife in spite of insistence on part of husband and his parents to have a child in family amounts to cruelty. Similarly in S.k Verma v. Usha, it was held that aborting foetus in the very first pregnancy by a deliberate act without consent of husband could amount to cruelty. Court in S.K case ignores the MTP Act where concern is not material.	Husband’s consent is not necessary for Abortions done for married women. What about the right of widow to terminate pregnancy? Recently Delhi court has summoned a widow of a Delhi policeman, along with her parents and brother, for having aborted her husband’s only heir to be. According to the mother of the deceased policeman who is the complainant, the unborn foetus would have been the only heir of the deceased son, and the widow had got pregnancy terminated so that she could remarry. Summons has been issued as the court “is satisfied that there is sufficient material on record to proceed against the respondents for the offence under section 312/201, Indian Penal code”.
3	Concealment of Birth	Child murder, or concealment of pregnancy (Contravention of Concealment of Birth (Scotland) Act 1809; Con. 49 Geo. III, c. 14) When a woman concealed her pregnancy during its course and did not seek help or assistance at the birth, and the child was found dead or missing. Concealment meant non-disclosure not merely active deception.	Contravention of Concealment of Birth Act has to be made (similar to Scotland/UK) in India. Concealment of pregnancy and birth is a premeditation event for female foeticide and against the proper care of foetus. Antenatal care of Mother if not done should be punishable.
4	Concealment of Pregnancy	Concealment of pregnancy	Contravention of pregnancy Act is needed with punitive action for attempted deliveries in toilets
5	Female foeticide	No punitive action. Section 312 of Indian Penal code 1860. "Whoever voluntarily causes a women to miscarry, shall if such miscarriage be not caused in good faith for the purpose of saving the life of the women be punished .....”. The Explanation provided that a women who causes herself to miscarry within the meaning of this section, infringes right to life of mother.	Stringent punishment has to be done for medically non-indicated foeticide (irrespective of gender)
6	Pre-selection techniques	There are three main techniques of sex selection: (i) pre-natal testing and termination of pregnancy (ii) pre-implantation genetic testing of embryos (iii) sperm sorting – selection of sperm carrying X or Y chromosomes followed by insemination or IVF.	Banning of all pre-selection techniques, whether done in India or abroad. Strong monitoring of Sex selection done in India and abroad by Indians traveling abroad on Tourist or Medical Visas.

Thanks and Regards,

Mr.  Kumar Jahgirdar,

President, CRISP,

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RAJYA SABHA INVITES CRISP FOR VIEWS ON FEMALE FOETICDE

Written by CRISP    

Kumar Jahgirdar (President) and Roshni Mathan Pereira (Family Counsellor, CRISP) with other members of CRISP and other NGOs

Kumar Jahgirdar (President), Sivakumar (Member) and Roshni Mathan Pereira (Family Counsellor) will be representing CRISP on 24 March 2011 at 3:45 pm to present their views to the Rajya Sabha Committee about Female foeticide.

Shri Kumar Jahgridar, 

President, 

Children Right Initiative for Shared Parenting(CRISP) 

No. 78, Osborne Road, 

Near Lakeside HDFC Bank, 

Bangalore-560042

Sub: - Petition praying for urgent need to curb female foeticide.

Sir, 

I am directed to state that the Committee on Petitions of Rajya Sabha which is examining the captioned petition, has decided to have the benefit of your views in response to your Memorandum on the petition received on 24th February, 201 1, in its meeting to be held on Thursday, the 24th March, 2011 in Main Committee Room, Ground Floor, Parliament House Annexe, New Delhi. I am, therefore, to request you kindly to make it convenient to appear before the Committee at 3.45 P.M. on the above noted date and venue for the purpose 

2. You may, if you so desire, give a detailed/consolidated written note containing your viewslsuggestions (in English & Hindi) which could be sent to this Secretariat latest by 21st March, 2011 for circulation amongst the Members of the Committee. 

3. A line in confirmation of your appearance before the Committee may be sent to the undersigned at the earliest. 

4. A copy each of the petition and the list of Members of the Committee on Petitions is enclosed. 

Yours faithfully, 

DEPUTY DIRECTOR 

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Ref: CRISP/241210/2                                                                                                  24rd December, 2010