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2008 Supreme(SC) 1449

ARIJIT PASAYAT, MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA
Baby Manji Yamada – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent


Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant :Ms. Indira Jaising, Sr. Adv., Ms. Lalit Mohini Bhat, Ms. Hetu Arora and Naveen R.Nath, Advocates.
For the Respondents:G.E. Vahanvati, S.G., Abhinav Sharma, R.K. Singh, Narender Tripathi, Debasis Misra, Devadatt Kamat, Ms. Sushma Suri, Saket Sikri, V.K. Rao and Ms. Madhu Sikri, Advocates.

JUDGMENT

Dr. Arijit Pasayat, J. —

1. This petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India, 1950 (hereinafter for short ‘the Constitution’) raises some important questions.

2. Essentially challenge is to certain directions given by a Division Bench of the Rajasthan High Court relating to production/custody of a child Manji Yamada. Emiko Yamada, claiming to be grandmother of the child, has filed this petition. The Writ Petition before the Rajasthan High Court was filed by M/s. SATYA, stated to be an NG0, the opposite party No. 3 in this petition. The D.B. Habeas Corpus Writ Petition No. 7829 of 2008 was filed by M/s. SATYA wherein the Union of India through Ministry of Home Affairs, State of Rajasthan through the Principal Secretary, The Director General of Police, Government of Rajasthan and the Superintendent of Police Jaipur City (East), Jaipur were made the parties. There is no dispute about Baby Manji Yamada having been given birth by a surrogate mother. It is stated that the biological parents Dr. Yuki Yamada and Dr. Ikufumi Yamada came to India in 2007 and had chosen a surrogate mother in Anand, Gujarat and a surrogacy agreement was entered into between the biological f


































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