Surrogacy: Consider German couples plea,says SC

On February 25,the court had asked the Women and Child Welfare Ministry agency to consider grant of adoption rights as a special case to the German couple. The court had passed the direction after the government counsel submitted that under existing rules,the German couple cannot be granted adoption rights as such a privilege is available only if the children are abandoned by their biological parents.

The Centre had earlier rejected the couples plea for grant of citizenship to the children on the ground that the statute does not provide citizenship rights to children born of a surrogate mother.