"One girl out of 7 newly born girls becomes a victim portraying a very bleak picture in Jammu and Kathua districts of J-K," Dr Sabu George said during a two-day media workshop on child sex ratio and female foeticide at the medical college.

Dr George, an expert who has done extensive study of the issue says a very unfortunate situation was developing in the Jammu region. It will soon surpass Punjab as per the trends.

Quoting the survey done on the data collected from twin districts in 2006-07, he said that as a result of girl killings, the child sex ratio in Jammu is 828 girls to 1,000 boys and in Kathua district it is 796 girls for 1000 boys.

If the present trends continues, Kathua, which borders Punjab, is visibly heading for a demographic catastrophe in a decade or so, he said.