A 13-day-old girl may become India's first surrogacy orphan after the Japanese couple who paid for her to be conceived divorced just weeks before she was born, leaving her in legal limbo.
The baby, who has been named Manji and is being kept in hospital after falling ill, faces an uncertain future after her Indian surrogate mother and the Japanese woman who had planned to adopt her refused to take her.
Her biological father, who wants to keep the baby, has not been allowed to take her out of the country because of laws banning single men from adopting girls.
Lawyers said that the case highlighted the need for legislation to regulate surrogate pregnancies in India amid fears that the rent-a-womb industry in the country is out of control.
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