Egg donation racket busted in Mumbai
Digital Desk, New Delhi. Immigration officials have busted a racket involving illegal egg donation and surrogacy in Mumbai. After this, Mumbai Police arrested Sunoti Belel and Seema Vinjarat at the international airport on Friday. This racket was being operated from Thane.
According to officials, Belel, 44, was involved in making unmarried women available as egg donors to IVF centers in India and other countries. These women were shown to be married with the help of forged documents, because under Indian law, unmarried women cannot donate their eggs. Belel, a resident of Kalyan, was arrested after arriving from Bangkok around 1.30 pm on Friday.
About 30 minutes later, 29-year-old Seema Vinajarat also arrived from Bangkok and was also arrested. Seema is a resident of Thane. Immigration officer Vaibhav Bhosale said he became suspicious when Bellel could not give a satisfactory answer about the purpose of her visit to Bangkok. During interrogation, it was revealed that Vinjarat had gone to Bangkok for egg test and was allegedly paid a huge amount for it.
Belel told the police that she, along with another accused named Sangeeta Bagul, ran an agency called Elite Care in Thane, which provided egg donors and surrogate mothers to IVF centers in India and abroad.
Sangeeta Bagul is absconding since the matter came to light. Vinjarat told the police that she came in contact with Bagul in 2022 and through him sold her eggs to a hospital in Andheri. She claimed that she traveled to IVF clinics in Kenya (2024), Kazakhstan (February 2025) and Thailand (January 2026) to sell her eggs with the help of Belel and Bagul. However, some attempts failed for medical reasons.
(With inputs from news agency PTI)
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