Surrogacy Act | Age Limits Inapplicable if Intending Couple Froze Embryos Before the Law Came Into Force: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that couples who had already started the surrogacy process before the enforcement of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021 cannot be denied the opportunity of surrogacy merely because they have crossed the age limit prescribed under the new law. A division bench comprising Justice Shekhar B Saraf and Justice Abdhesh Kumar Chaudhary observed that applying the statutory age restriction retrospectively would violate the fundamental right…