Chennai:
Female infanticide in Dharmapuri district has resulted in Madras High
Court issuing a warning to people in the district besides directing
the district legal services Authority to conduct literacy camp in the
district.
Rejecting the bail plea of a woman who poisoned her eight-day-old girl
child to death in Dharmapuri on March 2012, justice P Devadass said
that in this type of cases only women are being made accused.
“Actually, husbands who are not happy to have a girl child are equally
responsible for female infanticide,” the judge said.
The judge said that Dharmapuri and Madurai are famous for this kind of
social activity. “the sorry state of affairs is that there is high
rate of female infanticide in the district and it seems Dharmapuri
people do not like female children,” the judge said.
“Nowhere in the world except in India, more particularly in Dharmapuri
district, infants are being killed by administering ‘extract of cactus
plant’ because they were born as female,” the judge said.
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