2 minutes of readingBombayJanuary 18, 2026 12:25 pm IST
Mumbai Police arrested two women on Friday after immigration officers intercepted them at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport when they were returning from Bangkok, suspecting their involvement in an illegal surrogacy and egg donation racket linked to an in vitro fertilization (IVF) center in Thane.
The accused have been identified as Sunoti Belel, 44, a resident of Kalyan, and Seema Vinzarat, 29, a resident of Thane.
During interrogation, Vinzarat apparently revealed that he had accompanied Belel to Bangkok for medical tests related to surrogacy and egg donation, for which he had been paid a substantial amount. Police said Vinzarat revealed that he had been in contact with Bagul about three years ago and through her, he allegedly sold his eggs at a hospital in Andheri and at clinics in Kenya and Thailand.
According to police, the two women arrived from Bangkok on Thursday afternoon and were detained by immigration officers after they could not give satisfactory answers about the reason for their visit abroad.
Following this revelation, the Sahar police in Bombay They were alerted and both women were detained and questioned separately. During interrogation, the police learned that Belel and his partner Sangeeta Bagul, who is currently absconding, had opened an IVF center in Thane in 2024.
According to police, the women allegedly supplied single women as egg donors and surrogate mothers to fertility clinics in India and abroad using forged marriage certificates that falsely showed that the women were married.
Commercial surrogacy is prohibited under the Surrogacy Regulation Act, 2021. A case has been registered and efforts are on to trace and arrest Bagul, police said.
