Ggm: 14 booked as illegal surrogacy racket busted

The Haryana health department and Gurugram Police busted an illegal in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) centre in Sushant Lok Phase | that allegedly operated a cross-border surrogacy racket catering to infertile couples from India, China, and Australia.

- Debashish Karmakar

Police said on Thursday they recovered 84 cryogenically frozen embryos prepared for implantation into surrogate mothers during a raid late last month.

The centre, operating under the name Fertility Cure Centre, functioned in the guise of an ultrasound clinic from a five-storey building in Block B of Sushant Lok Phase 1, according to the FIR seen by HT. It had allegedly been running for over a year, illegally extracting, processing, and storing gametes ~ sperm and ovum - without written consent from donors as mandatory per law, police said.