Why Delhi High Court approved parents' request for their dead son’s sperm
The Delhi High Court permitted an elderly couple to access their deceased son's frozen semen for surrogacy, establishing that Indian law does not prohibit posthumous reproduction if consent is present, thus recognising the sperm sample as part of the individual's biological material and allowing it to be inherited. In a heartwarming ruling, the Delhi High Court green-lighted an elderly couple's request to allow them access to their deceased son's frozen semen sample and let them have a grandchild through surrogacy . The couple had to take the legal route for the posthumous assisted reproduction after the hospital refused to release the sperm due to the absence of clear legal guidelines for cases without a spouse. The couple lost their 30-year-old son, Preet Inder Singh to Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma , a form of blood cancer . He was diagnosed in June 2020 and admitted to the hospital for treatment where he was advised to cryopreserve his ...