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Hooda praises Judiciary, Executive for joining hands

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Thursday that his government would spend around Rs.30 crore on infrastructure development of judicial complexes mostly at the sub-divisional headquarters during the next financial year.

Addressing a seminar on “Female foeticide and women empowerment” at Hansi, a sub-divisional headquarters of Hisar district, he said the Government had spent Rs.29 crore during the current financial year on construction of judicial complexes.

He disclosed that judicial complexes had already been constructed in 18 of the 20 districts and construction work on these complexes at Panipat and Mewat was being completed.

Describing female foeticide as a blot on society, Mr. Hooda said that this evil could be eradicated through social awakening and changing the mind-set of the people. He said it was praiseworthy that both the Judiciary and the Executive wings in the State had joined hands for the first time for this cause. He claimed that as a result of these efforts the sex ratio had started improving.

Punjab and Haryana High Court Chief Justice Vijender Jain, who laid the foundation stone for a Sub-Divisional Judicial Complex to be built at Hansi, observed that female foeticide was prevalent in Haryana and Punjab. This social evil could not be tackled with the help of law alone for want of evidence as in most of such cases, the parents of the foetus and the doctors were “involved”.

Emphasising that social security must be provided to women, Mr. Justice Jain said the entire society must contribute to launch a “jehad” against female foeticide. Justices J.S. Kehar, A.K. Goel and Surya Kant of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, District Sessions Judge S.S. Lamba and Deputy Commissioner Dipti Umashankar also addressed the seminar.

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