Boy ‘stolen’ by surrogate mom traced after 4 years

“The first woman we contacted for surrogacy (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/surrogacy) fled after taking Rs 50,000.

The second one fled with our child,” said Dinesh Rawat, the father. According to Meerut police, the couple had hired a woman

— Kajal (name changed) from Meerut and native of West Bengal (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/west-bengal) — for

surrogacy in 2014. “Kajal delivered twin boys in 2015 at a nursing home in West Bengal but told the couple that one of them

died during the delivery,” Vijay Gupta, Meerut Sadar police SHO told TOI.

However, the couple suspected her claim and started looking for the other child. Throughout their hunt, which stretched to

over three years, the couple were sure that the child was alive somewhere, but the police was not. According to Dinesh, police

refused to file a case citing lack of proof. The parents found some evidence and the case was finally registered in Dehradun

last year.

Eventually Kajal was booked for cheating in 2018 and an investigation to recover the child began. Police recently got a fresh

tip-off about the likely presence of the child in Meerut or Aligarh. The child was recovered from Pandit Gautam Mukherjee, one

of the relatives of Kajal. Sarita Rawat, mother of the twins, broke down after seeing her second son for the first time. The child,

named Golu by his surrogate mother, tried to console her. “Why are you crying aunty?” Golu asked. Tukku, the second son of

the couple, also exchanged toys with his new-found brother.