Dhaka, Feb. 27 -- The High Court (HC) has issued a rule prohibiting detection of gender of unborn babies or fetuses.

The court also instructed the hospital and diagnostic centre authorities to strictly follow the order.

The HC bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Kazi Zinat Hoque delivered the verdict on Sunday after disposing of a writ petition filed in this regard.

Supreme Court lawyer Ishrat Hasan who filed the writ petition herself argued in support of her petition while Deputy Attorney General Amit Das Gupta represented the state and Tirtha Salil appeared for the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Ishrat Hasan filed the petition on January 26, 2020 with the High Court as public interest litigation seeking necessa...