Infocomm case: Police asked to file status report
Friday, February 4 2005 19:24 Hrs (IST) - World Time - 
New Delhi:
A city court today (Feb 4, 2005) asked Delhi Police Special Cell to file status report by March 15 in the case filed against Reliance Infocomm for alleged violation of a law on pre-natal sex determination.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Reena Singh Nag asked for the status report from the Delhi Police Special Cell which had registered a case under Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994 (PNDT Act) and Information Technology Act, 2000 at its Lodhi Road Police Station against the company.
The Reliance Infocomm is accused of violating provisions of the law by depicting information about sex determination of foetus on its website.
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The advertisement, in R-menu on Reliance mobile phones, allegedly provided information of Chinese way of detecting the sex of foetus.
Delhi Government's Director of Family Welfare Avinash Kaur Mehta had approached the court seeking initiation of criminal proceedings against the company, its Board of Directors, officers, staff and franchisees for placing an advertisement on its website which provided Chinese tips to predict the gender of the child.
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In her complaint, Mehta, chairperson of the Appropriate Authority for Delhi under PNDT Act, alleged that under the submenu of Reliance Infocomm website http://rworld.relianceinfo.com/RWorld/html/whatsnew/womansworld_home.html/, the said persons criminally conspired and communicated the techniques for ensuring and increasing the probability that an embryo will be of a particular sex.
For further study on the pre-conception and post-conception technique, the viewer/user has to navigate the 'R World' services from the company-provided 'RIM' mobile phone handsets by following the given instructions, the complaint said about the advertisement.
PTI
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