Surrogate child citizenship: HC issues notice to passport office

The Gujarat High Court has issued a notice to the Regional Passport Officer in connection with the contempt petition filed for non-compliance of HC order to return passports to the two boys born to a German citizen through surrogacy.

The Gujarat High Court has issued a notice to the Regional Passport Officer (RPO) in connection with the contempt petition filed for non-compliance of HC order to return passports to the two boys born to a German citizen through surrogacy.

Jan Balaz had filed the petition after the RPO failed to return the passport of his twin boys despite the HC order.

The next hearing on the petition is scheduled on November 25.

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Balaz recently won a legal case against the Regional Passport Authority in getting the Indian passports of his children returned.

The division bench of the HC comprising justices K S Radhakrishnan and A S Dave,in a landmark judgment on November 11,had conferred Indian citizenship on the two boys,as their surrogate mother is an Indian.

The court had ordered the passport authorities to return the Indian passports of the two children.

However,when Balaz failed to get the passports of his sons back from the authorities till November 16,he filed a contempt petition against them through his lawyer Dhaval Dave.

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The petition is being heard by the division bench of justices A L Dave and S D Dave.

Balazs lawyer,Dhaval Dave said,The court has issued notice to the Regional Passport Office and further hearing has been kept on November 25.

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