Pratibha Masand, TNN | Nov 4, 2012, 01.07AM IST
Kamayani Bali Mahabal, an advocate who wrote the letter, said though the ads are of clinics inDubai and the US, they should not be accessible to netizens in India. “According to a 2008 Supreme court ruling, clinics offering sex selection and sex determination of an unborn child are not allowed anywhere, even on the internet. In 2008, Google was told to remove links of such ads and it had done so then, but the ads are back again. There needs to be constant monitoring on part of the search engine,” she said.
Activists said such advertisements give ideas to people about travelling abroad to access technology banned in India. The FASS has also marked a copy of the letter to the cyber crime cell and the pre-conception pre-natal diagnostic techniques cell in Delhi. “We will wait for 15 days for Google’s response. If that does not happen, we’ll file a case,” said Mahabal.
Google, however, denied receiving any such letter from the forum. “The Google advertising program is managed by a set of policies which we develop based on several factors, including legal requirements and user experience. In India, we do not allow ads for the promotion of pre-natal gender determination or preconception sex selection. We take applicable legal requirements extremely seriously and take prompt and effective action in case a violation is reported to us,” a spokesperson from Google’s office in Hyderabad said, adding that the ads would be removed if there is a complaint.
On Saturday, one of the links, which was visible on Friday when TOI contacted Google, did not show up on the search engine.
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