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Tripura women woes persist over female infanticide and rape cases
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Tripura women woes persist over female infanticide and rape cases
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Agartala, November 3 (TIWN): Women woes have persisted in Tripura on various grounds of female infanticide, downgraded education measures to girl child, rape and molestation cases in state over years now.

The survey conducted by Tripura Health and Family Welfare department has left a poor impact on crime against women and also killing of female foeticides when the report flashed by Implied Sex Ratio by Birth (ISRB) has dipped by six points when compared by data of ten years during 2010 last.

Moreover, the sex ratio of the state stands on 960 females against 1000 males, with blinded measures undertaken to upgrade the literacy rate of women standing on 78.98 percent if compared to male literacy rate around 91 percent averaging the total literacy rate in state to be 87.22 percent in Tripura as per 2011 census report.

The medical industry in state has illicitly earned a lump sum amount estimated money to be over Rupees 10 lakhs on issued of female infanticide utilising the nation’s legal Act on 1971 that overlooked medical advancement, which failed to assume identification of foetal sex prior to birth in mother’s womb, flashed a reported data disclosed by a source of medical department in state.

Many medical practitioners have exploited this Act for a prolonged period and still the crime is on progress, where the lawmakers have yet failed to dent the secret deals engulfing crime over killing female foetus prior to birth and is lately labeled as still born babies and dumped for damaging.

The government has failed to point several subjects on female infanticide though revised law has made it punishable under current grounds. And additionally the case of rape and molestation are often under reported in criminal diary of police files due to the curtain the female populace draw scaring to become a snubbed toy in the society, if they get highlighted once.

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