New Delhi, Feb. 24 -- Emphasising that a skewed sex ratio can have grave social consequences, including increased violence against women and trafficking, the Supreme Court on Monday called for a stern approach in dealing with female foeticide and violations of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Prohibition of Sex Selection) Act, 1994. "A skewed sex ratio is likely to lead to greater incidences of violence against women and increase in practices of trafficking, bride-buying etc. It is an effort to save the girl child," a bench of justices Manoj Misra and Ujjal Bhuyan said. The judgment, authored by justice Bhuyan, underlined that the focus of the PCPNDT Act is to protect the right to life of the girl child under Article ...