Daijiworld Media Network - New Delhi

New Delhi, Oct 11: Supreme Court judge Justice B V Nagarathna, the only woman on the bench, voiced strong concern on Saturday over the ongoing issue of gender-based discrimination starting before birth, citing troubling sex ratio trends linked to female foeticide.

Speaking at the inaugural session of a two-day national consultation on safeguarding the girl child — organised by the Supreme Court’s Juvenile Justice Committee (SCJJC) in partnership with UNICEF India — Justice Nagarathna stressed that “a girl child should not merely survive, but actively thrive.”

Highlighting the marginal progress in India’s child sex ratio, she referred to data from the 2011 Census and the National Family Health Survey-5 (2019–2021), which showed a slight rise from 914

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