Supreme Court today pulled up online search engines like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft; for failing to check sex determination advertisements, saying they were violating Indian law. It asked the Centre to convene a meeting of technical experts and the search engines within 10 days, to explore ways to block such advertisements.
The apex court had in January last year directed the search engines to act on this front. The court had also earlier come down heavily on various states for their failure to stop female foeticide, leading to alarming drop in the sex ratio in the country.