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“Indian millionaire’s wife ‘forced to abort baby girls’” |
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“The wife of a millionaire industrialist has shocked Indian high society by accusing her husband of forcing her to abort two baby girls after taking illegal tests to determine their gender,” The Times reported on 28 July 07, “Her allegations against 15 people have sent shockwaves across India by breaking a strict code of silence on such matters and exposing the extent of female feticide among the urban upper and middle classes.
“Mrs. Salotia told The Times from Gujarat, where she has gone into hiding after the release on bail of everyone except her husband. ‘In our culture, girls are not important. But I can’t tolerate it any more because it’s insulting.’ ” Ultrasound gender tests have been illegal since 1994, but the law is not enforced. “A recent survey indicated that there were only 882 women for every 1,000 men in Defence Colony, one of Delhi’s upmarket districts.”
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