Overview
- Sahar police arrested Sunoti Belele, 44, and donor Seema Vinzarat, 29, after they arrived from Bangkok on January 17 and gave evasive answers to immigration officials.
- Belele allegedly operated through a Thane entity called Elite Care with co-accused Sangita Bagul, who is absconding, supplying unmarried women as donors by masking their status.
- Investigators say forged paperwork was used to present donors as married in violation of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021, which allows egg donation only by married women with at least one child and bans commercial surrogacy.
- Police have identified several IVF laboratories for further inquiry, while Vinzarat told investigators she sold eggs in Mumbai and traveled to clinics in Kenya in 2024, Kazakhstan in February 2025, and Thailand in January 2026.
- An FIR names three women, with charges under sections 336 and 61 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for forgery and criminal conspiracy, along with relevant provisions of the surrogacy law.