The Supreme Court on Thursday heard a PIL seeking a ban on foreign websites which solicit couples to undergo pre-natal sex determination tests.
Sabu Mathew George filed the PIL in 2008, complaining that such content is banned under Indian laws.
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has been directed by the Apex Court to set up a “nodal agency” for enforcing a ban on commercial advertisements and any information on the internet with the intent of urging couples to take sex-determination tests for the foetus.
The bench refused to accept arguments by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft that doing so was a violation of right to information of people and said a nodal agency is to be alerted when people solicit such information.
(With inputs from ANI)
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