Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 1209 · Decided 9 October 2025
Vijaya Kumari S & Another v. Union of India
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 1209 · [2025] 11 S.C.R. 136
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 331/2024
- Decided
- 9 October 2025
- Bench
- B.V. NAGARATHNA, K.V. VISWANATHAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 21
Headnote
Issue arose whether the age-restrictions u/s.4(iii)(c)(I) of Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021 should be applied to intending couples, all of whom had commenced the surrogacy process, to the extent of having their embryos frozen, before the enforcement of Act, 2021 - s.4(iii)(c)(I) - Regulation of surrogacy and surrogacy procedures - Application of the age-restrictions on 'intending couples' u/s.4(iii)(c)(I) who had frozen their embryos, before the enforcement of the Act - Act of 2021 Act came into force
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