Introduction

In India, gender selection and its subsequent female infanticide remain a problem today. Sex ratio is calculated in India in which large number of women was missing because most preference was given to son according to patriarchal customs and promote the selective elimination of females through practices such as infanticide and sex selective abortion (Vickery and Teijlingen, 2017). Before birth, girl children become a target of attack due to which number of female was decreasing. According to Diaz stated that “a renowned Abortion Centre in Mumbai after performing the gender recognition tests, performed 15,914 killings throughout the year 1984-85, out of which 100 per cent were female unborn. Likewise, an assessment account of a women’s center in Mumbai tracked that out of 8,000 unborn terminated in six city hospitals, 7,999 unborn were of females” (Tandon and Sharma, 2006).

Foeticide is stated as an action that leads to the demise of an unborn. As per the legalized term, it is referred to as an intentional assassination of an unborn because of an aberrant social deed, like a harsh and fatal knock onto the belly of an expecting lady. But in medicinal terms, foeticide is the manslaughter of an unborn, likewise the initial stage of a legally persuaded foeticide or killing of the unborn (Khatun and Islam, 2011).