Surrogacy 'Industry' Should Not Be Encouraged In India: Delhi High Court
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"Why should the court get into all this now? This industry (surrogacy) need not be encouraged here. You are based in Canada. You cannot run an industry here. This will become a billion dollars industry. This is not a case where we should be asking the government to do anything," the bench said.
The Delhi High Court today observed "surrogacy industry" should not be encouraged in India, where if left unchecked, it may grow into a billion dollar business.
The court made the observation while hearing a plea by an Indian origin couple living in Canada challenging the March 14 notification issued by the Centre amending the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act to ban donor surrogacy by altering Form 2 under Rule 7 of the Surrogacy Rules, 2022.
A bench of Acting Chief Justice Manmohan and Justice Mini Pushkarna said the changes in surrogacy rules happened at the instance of the courts.
