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Advisory Committee. I took questions related to the issue to the committee, which led to fierce debates and at the end, with the help of United Nations Population Fund, we could conduct workshops for judges for more than a year. Now when I look back at that time, those workshops taught us a lot too. We learnt a lot about people, especially how they can turn their back to us. Many of our workers stabbed us in the back. They got a handsome amount for doing that, obviously. Because of that, during such cases, we became extra-alert of what information goes out and comes in. During that time, a couple filed a petition in the supreme court against the PCPNDT act, saying that “We have two male children, we want a girl child, gender-balance must be kept from home and that's our right but the PCPNDT act takes away that right.” The drafting of the petition was very subtle. We were just demanding the right to birth for a girl child, but for that too, we had to face many obstacles. Information from 2011 census was yet to come. 2001 census and the yearly data after it revealed a shocking fact that the number of girls in the age group of 0-6 were steadily decreasing. But the real shock came from the 2011 census information of Beed. Per 1000 men, there were only 805 women in Beed! In some Talukas of Beed, that number was in the range of 750-800! It was a horrifying revelation. The situation was worse than that of 2001! Beed was the only district in Maharashtra with such clear disparity between the number of males and females. It was obvious that it grabbed the attention of the entire nation. Now it was important to end the political narrative of the issue. Because there were other states too like Punjab and Haryana with less sex-ratio. Block level analysing enabled us to understand another shocking fact that 'Walva' block in Sangali district had the least number of women in comparison with men followed by Beed's Shirur-Kasar, Wadwani, Dharur. The Urban, stable and wealthy people generally cry to have a