ALL'S WELL FOR THE EMPEROR BOY

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There was quite interesting news and tested occasion for Regulatory authorities of the respective countries. The following news published in The Hindu dated 01.03.2012 written by Mr. M.Srinivas opened up a big subject in line with technology in communication area, where lot of controversies exist on various services like on line pruchase, uplinking data, access to the server located at another country etc. This Medical technology created an important issue which will be faced by some of the countries in future.

The content of the news is reproduced below:

Emperor Kioyous is now officially a Jamaican. the 12 week old boy's nationality became a tricky question as he was born to a surrogate Indian mother, while his biological parents were an American woman and her Jamaican husband.

Born in the Rama's Institute for fertility in Hyderabad (India) on December 7, 2011, Emperor Kioyous kicked off a controversy When Indian Authorities refused to give him a passport citing various rules. Vexed with the steadfast denial of passport to facilitate his travel to the United States, his mother J.Pearl Linda Vanburren Green abandoned the child in the Regional Passport Office in Secunderabad on January 25 and went away.

Perplexed, the authorities located her later and handed over the baby to her, promising to look into the issue.

Subsequently, Ms.Green, a resident of New York, approached the External Affairs Ministry and , with U.S.Consulate intervention, managed to get a Jamaican passport for Emperor Kioyous. She left Indian alongwith him on Tuesday morning. Institute Officials said Mrs.Green and her Jamaican Husband had decided to have a baby through a surrogate mother in Hyderabad.


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