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Abstract
Female foeticide is perhaps one of the worst forms of violence against women in India, where a woman is denied her most basic and fundamental right i.e. “the right to life”. The phenomenon of female foeticide in India is not new, where female embryos are selectively eliminated after pre-natal sex determination even before they are born. This practice, which is so unfortunately prevalent in our country, is truly the most horrific form of gender discrimination. Indeed, gender discrimination in our society is so entrenched, that it begins even before a girl is born. While in the womb, she faces the danger that she might never be allowed to be born; if born, her irrelevance is asserted when her birth is not registered; immediately after, she faces the continuing danger that she might not be allowed to live till the next day. So, in this context the present paper will briefly discuss about the problem of female foeticide in India and the increasing use of sex-selection technologies for female foeticide as well as the possible causes behind it.