CRIME: BEARING A GIRL CHILD, VERDICT: UNPARDONABLE OFFENSE.
Dr. Mitu Khurana refused to abort her twin daughters when she was falsely tricked into a sex determination test by Dr.Kamal Khurana, her husband and also a doctor himself. Mitu’s story of struggle began here. Her staunch refusal to abort her children led her husband to eventually throw her out of their house. At other times she was harassed in a multitude of ways, from being denied food and water to being coaxed into giving her daughters up for adoption after they were born.
When Mitu realized that doctors at Jaipur Golden Hospital, had tricked her into a sex determination test she decided to speak out against this crime. She filed a complaint with the Women’s Commission and various NGOs and also became the first woman to file a complaint under the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (PC-PNDT) Act in Delhi.
No action has yet been taken against her husband and her in-laws. Both a high court judge and her workmates asked her to drop the case and reconcile with her husband. She has also been advised to continue her efforts in getting pregnant till she has a son.
Dr. Mitu Khurana is brave woman who has spoken out against sex selective abortion which a serious problem in our country and goes mostly undetected or is hidden under layers of societal pressures, much like all other gender based violence.
A U.N report reveals that 1.2 million girls were ‘missing’ in India between 1981 and 1991 due to sex selective abortions and female infanticide, while 4 million died prematurely due to neglect. So what is that is so unforgivable about being a woman in this country?
Join the march for India’s missing girls-
Mumbai : Fight-Back is organizing a walk in Mumbai on Date:March, 6. 2010. Time: 11AM Location : Starts at Nariman Point and ends at Nirmala Niketan College, Churchgate.
Delhi: March 6 Time: 9:30AM Location: Starts at the India Gate and ends at Jantar Mantar in Connaught Place.
Jamshedpur : 7th March 2010 Time: 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Location: Starts at Golmuri Welfare Centre (attached to the Roman Catholic Cathedral and Bishop’s House ) and will return to Golmuri Center for discussions on female foeticide, infanticide, trafficking and domestic violence.
Pondicherry Date: March 6 2010 Time: 10:30AM Location: Starts at Pondicherry University & ends at Auroville.
For more details on Dr.Mitu Khurana’s case visit- http://mitukhurana.wordpress.com/
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RashmiMarch 5, 2010 at 6:29 pm
Sitting far away from the country, lost in the daily routine, surrounded by friends dying to have a girl, I started believing that times have changed, that there is no bias against girl child in the current, modern thinking India, blissfully unaware that giving birth to girls is still a curse.
This news shook me out of my bubble of ignorance and thrust an ugly reality right on my face.
pialiMarch 9, 2010 at 10:16 am
Its really humiliating that till date the so called educated class still think of killing girls in the womb.
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[...] Dr. Mitu Khurana, an Indian woman featured on our Bell Bajao! blog who faced enormous pressure from her husband and extended family to abort her twin daughters. She held strong and ultimately remained determined to bring justice to the people that tried to force her into abortion. [...]
Dr Mitu KhuranaOctober 2, 2010 at 3:18 pm
Hello friends Am forwarding you the online petition
created by my friends from I.I.H.M.R Delhi. Please sign the petition and also spread the word forward to Help Guddu and Pari Live and Smile…
Thanks
Hello friends,
Greetings of the day. Now to continue the fight against the injustice for Mitu and for the lovely twin sisters guddu and pari, I want to make this fight online. I have created 4 online petitions for the same fight against injustice and to continue our signature campaign all over INDIA. As all of you are going to yours home place, so we have decided to continue our campaign online. Just click on the links below and sign out the petition.
Please forward this links to your friends also and ask for there signatures. You know the case very well. The updates for this campaign would be provided to you time by time.
http://www.my-cause.com/support_a_mothers_fight_for_her_daughters_lives
http://www.my-cause.com/cause/right_for_girl_children_to_live_1
http://www.indianvoice.org/help-the-mother-to-fight-petition.html
http://www.indianvoice.org/stop-female-foeticide-petition.html
Together we can and together we will make a difference.
With regards
Anindam Basu
Also Please watch the movie on gender violence created by mediastrom on this link -
http://mediastorm.com/publication/undesired
http://mediastorm.com/pub/projects/undesired/
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Dr Mitu KhuranaJanuary 26, 2011 at 7:09 am
The Global Walk for India’s Missing Girls’ is a march organized by people all over the world to protest against female foeticide and infanticide, the worst genocide in India’s history. In March 2010 , over a 1000 people walked in San Francisco, Delhi, Mumbai, Jamshedpur, Pondicherry, Kuwait and Melbourne.
In India over the last 20 years, 10 million girls have been killed by their parents, either before or immediately after birth because they consider daughters a burden.
Why are these horrific crimes against women being ignored? Where is the public outcry? Where is the media attention?
The next Global Walk for India’s Missing Girls will be held in March 2011, on the occasion of International Women’s Day and is aimed at creating awareness and spurring action in the Indian and the International communities.The Walk will take place in San Francisco, Mumbai, Delhi, Jamshedpur, Pondicherry , Melbourne ( Australia), and Kampala (Uganda).
Walk for India’s Missing Girls is founded by the documentary film team ‘Petals In The Dust: India’s Missing Girls’ – http://www.petalsinthedust.com.
We hope through the walk and our film to create awareness globally, of the elimination of India’s girls.
Please join us in large numbers to make this event a success. The organizers of the March in various cities and countries are-
-Abhitej Singh – Chandigarh
Beaula Knauf – Goa
Deepu Thomas – Pondicherry
Isaac Farias – Washington D.C
Jackie Colaco- Bangalore
Kashmir Singh- Toronto
Maryanne Ekka-Jamshedpur
Dr.Mitu Khosla, Dr. Ash Pachauri and Bijayalakshmi Nanda – Delhi
Ravneet Kaur- Melbourne
Sonal Alvares-Mumbai
Nyna Pais-Caputi- San Francisco
Please Join us and also help us spread the word. If someone wants to organize the walk in their city , you are most welcome to contact us via email at mitukhurana@gmail.com, nynacaputi@gmail.com
Thanks.