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MarIn a landmark ruling, the Kerala High Court has allowed a 50-year-old woman to pursue surrogacy under the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021, reported TOI. A division bench, consisting of Chief Justice Nitin Jamdar and Justice S Manu, overturned a previous decision by a single bench and granted the woman the opportunity to become a mother through surrogacy, […]
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AprThe Calcutta High Court has recently held that in cases of in-vitrio fertilisation (IVF), it is not mandatory that either the sperm or the oocyte must come from the couple seeking IVF themselves.A single bench of Justice Sabyasachi Bhattacharya perused the rules under the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021 (Act) and allowed a plea by a[…]
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OctA man or his relatives cannot be held guilty for cruelty towards a woman under section 498A of the IPC if there was only a live-in relationship and no solemnisation of marriage, the Kerala High Court has held. Section 498A of the IPC provides the punishment for the husband or the relative of the husband of a[…]
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AugMUMBAI: A couple married for almost a decade and intending to invoke legal provisions for surrogacy has approached Bombay high court to challenge a blanket ban on egg donors and for permission to use donor gametes.The HC on Monday issued notice to the Central government, State and the National and State Assisted Reproductive Technology and Surrogacy Boards[…]
