BSTRACT: Through this article, I would like to address the heinous act of female foeticide practiced at an alarming rate in various Indian states. I would like to focus on how the phenomenon of the selective elimination of female fetuses is not dying out, but rather is emerging as a worrying new trend. I also want to highlight how, with rapid progress, technologies such as ultrasound and prenatal diagnosis are being misused to determine the sex of the baby. What I mainly want to look at is the non-implementation of the PNDT Act. Along with this, I wish to critically analyze why despite awareness being created against such crime, substantial reduction in this matter has not been achieved. I intend to structure the document as such in which I will initially deal with what female infanticide and feticide is. What fine line distinguishes the two and what has kept this practice intact despite 66 years of Independence. Later I will point out how the law has been widely abused to eliminate unwanted girls, who were instead created primarily to guarantee their birth. And this will be followed by a conclusion. INTRODUCTION: It has been 66 years since India gained independence by chasing away the colonial forces. From 1947 to date, India as a nation has successfully faced and overcome most of its obstacles to tread the path of modernization, progress and prosperity. But we should not be disillusioned only by the rosy picture that India projects on the global forum, as the other side of the coin highlights the grim portrait of widespread corruption, mass unemployment, casteism, poverty and illiteracy that are constantly crippling the identity of the nation. Despite the numerous measures taken to eradicate... middle of paper ......a law banning the advertising and use of prenatal diagnostic technologies for sex determination purposes. Similar actions have been taken in some other states by social activists. Soon the issue was brought to national attention and eventually culminated in the central government's bill, namely the Prenatal Diagnostic Technique (PNDT) Act, 1994. The law was supposed to prohibit the use of sexually transmitted diseases (including ultrasound) which were used to determine the sex of the fetus. Furthermore, advertising of such gender detection technologies is prohibited. It had provisions to punish the people who conducted these tests as well as the people who sought this test. “According to the law, prenatal diagnostic techniques could only be used to detect abnormalities in certain conditions by registered institutions”4 (Chauhan 1998; Kapur, Khan & Radhakrishnan 1999 and Kumar1994).