Section 3A. Prohibition of sex selection
1 [3A. Prohibition of sex selection.--No person, including a specialist or a team of specialists in the field of infertility, shall conduct or cause to be conducted or aid in conducting by himself or by any other person, sex selection on a woman or a man or on both or on any tissue, embryo, conceptus, fluid or gametes derived from either or both of them.]
Judgements applying section 3A
The High Court allowed an anticipatory bail application filed by a sonography machine vendor accused under the PCPNDT Act and BNS for supplying a machine used for fetal sex determination. The court granted bail subject to bond and reporting conditions.
AllowedOpenThe High Court allowed an anticipatory bail application filed by a sonography machine vendor accused under the PCPNDT Act and BNS for supplying a machine used for fetal sex determination. The court granted bail subject to bond and reporting conditions.
AllowedOpenPC&PNDT Act, 1994 - Section 28 - cognizance restriction - police investigation and charge-sheet under IPC - Revision against rejection of discharge (S.227 Cr.PC) dismissed.
DismissedOpenTelangana High Court (J. Sreenivas Rao, J.), Crl.P. No.16864 of 2025, order dated 17.12.2025: quashing petition under Section 528 BNSS by doctor/Accused No.4 against CC.No.44 of 2025 (JMFC Kamareddy) under PCPNDT Act 1994 Ss.3(3), 3A, 6(b)(c), 23(1)(2) and PCPNDT Rules 6(6) and 8 dismissed;
DismissedOpenQuashing of criminal proceedings is not warranted where the complaint and final report contain specific allegations attracting the ingredients of offences under Sections 3(3), 3A, 6(b)(c) and 23(1)(2) of the PCPNDT Act; contentions of innocence are disputed questions of fact to be decided at trial.
DisposedOpenCriminal petition to quash PCPNDT Act proceedings dismissed. Court held specific allegations exist attracting offence ingredients; disputed facts require trial. Presentin embodiment of accused dispensed with subject to counsel-only representation.
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Appeals against refusal of patent applications for non-invasive prenatal screening methods using methylation-based enrichment of fetal nucleic acid. The Court held that diagnostic processes under Section 3(i) include screening tests that eliminate the need for further confirmatory diagnosis, that product claims are…
CRM-M-49677-2025, High Court of Punjab & Haryana, decided 11.09.2025, Judge Surya Partap Singh. Bail granted to petitioner Vikram in FIR No.185 dated 26.07.2025, Police Station City Jhajjar, District Jhajjar — offences under BNS 2023 Sections 318(4), 319, 61, 238, 3(5);
AllowedOpenPunjab and Haryana High Court, CRM-A-2184-MA-2016 (O&M), Rajesh Bhardwaj J., decided 18.08.2025: State of Haryana's leave-to-appeal application under Section 378(3) Cr.P.C.
DisposedOpenUpendra Goswami Vs State of U.P. Thru. Secy. Deptt. Medical Health Family Welfare Govt. of U.P. Lko. and 4 Others
Outcome: AllowedAllahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench (Pankaj Bhatia, J.), WRIT-C No. 4371 of 2025, decided 17.7.2025 (Neutral Citation 2025:AHC-LKO:44621), Upendra Goswami v. State of U.P. Keywords: PCPNDT Act; section 20(3) — power to suspend only, not cancel, registration of genetic clinic/ultrasound centre;
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