An investigation arrange by the Tamil Nadu authorities has mentioned that Nayanthara and Vignesh Shivan haven’t damaged any legal guidelines governing surrogacy in India. The actor-director couple grew to become dad and mom to twin boys–Uyir and Ulagham–via surrogacy earlier this month, following which many raised doubts concerning the legality of all of it, since industrial surrogacy was banned in India in January. Nonetheless, the state authorities’s workforce has discovered no wrongdoing on their half, as per studies. Additionally learn: Surrogacy row: Nayanthara, Vignesh Shivan registered marriage 6 years in the past
The Tamil Nadu authorities had fashioned a three-member panel appointed by the Well being and Household Welfare Division to analyze if there have been any irregularities within the surrogacy technique of Nayanthara and Vignesh Shivan. Nonetheless, as per a number of studies, the panel submitted their findings on Wednesday, exonerating the couple. The report, nonetheless, locations the blame on the hospital the facilitated the surrogacy.
“On investigating the physician who supplied remedy to the couple, it was found that the couple’s household physician had supplied a letter of advice in 2020 based mostly on which remedy was supplied,” the panel mentioned, as per a report in The Information Minute. The workforce mentioned that they haven’t been capable of communicate to the household physician as far as they’ve relocated out of India.
The report states that the surrogate mom entered into an settlement with the couple in November 2021 and the embryo was positioned in her in March this yr. The twins have been born in October. Industrial surrogacy was banned in India after the The Surrogacy (Regulation) Act 2021 was handed in December. It got here into impact in January 2022. Going by this timeline of occasions, when Nayanthara and Vignesh started the method, it was authorized.
The panel got here down closely on the personal hospital that had maintained Nayanthara’s data saying that the recordkeeping was improper, which led to the confusion and controversy. The division has issued a discover to the hospital over the matter.
Nayanthara and Vignesh married in June this yr in a personal however star-studded ceremony that was attended by the likes of Rajinikanth, Shah Rukh Khan, Vijay Sethupathi, AR Rahman, Suriya, and Anirudh amongst others. Nayanthara, a well-liked identify within the Tamil and Telugu movie industries, will make her Bollywood debut reverse Shah Rukh in Atlee’s Jawan subsequent yr.
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