New Delhi (Soibam Rocky Singh / Hindustan Times) : The Delhi High Court has turned down the appeal of an Australian
couple to have sex selective surrogacy in India and said it cannot make
exception to the law to accommodate the “desire” of a foreigner to have a
“balanced family” comprising a male and a female child.
A division bench of Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justice Manmohan clarified that rules of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act (Prohibition of Sex Selection) (PCPNDT) Act, 1994, which prohibits child sex determination, applies to both Indian and foreign nationals seeking to conceive a child in the country through surrogacy.
A division bench of Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justice Manmohan clarified that rules of the Pre-Conception and Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act (Prohibition of Sex Selection) (PCPNDT) Act, 1994, which prohibits child sex determination, applies to both Indian and foreign nationals seeking to conceive a child in the country through surrogacy.
