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Immigration officials at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) have busted an international organised racket involved in illegal commercial surrogacy and egg donation. Two women passengers who arrived in Mumbai from Bangkok were detained for questioning and later handed over to the Sahar Police, which registered a case against three women, arrested two of them and launched a search for the third. The arrested accused have been identified as Sunoti Beleel (44) and Seema Vinhzarat (29), while Sangeeta Bagul is absconding. Further investigation in the case has been handed over to the Mumbai Crime Branch. According to police, the two women arrived in Mumbai on a flight from Bangkok and during interrogation revealed crucial details about the illegal network. Preliminary investigation suggests that an illegal egg donation racket was being operated through the Bangkok route. As per information provided by the police, on January 16, 2026, immigration officials grew suspicious during routine checks of two women passengers who had arrived from Bangkok on IndiGo flight 6E-1052. During questioning at the immigration counter, the women failed to give satisfactory answers regarding the purpose of their foreign travel. Further probe revealed that Sunoti Beleel had been working as an agent in the IVF sector since 2024. Along with her associate Sangeeta Bagul, she had set up an agency named Elite Care in Thane, which supplied egg donors and surrogate mothers to fertility centres in India and abroad in exchange for large sums of money. During interrogation, it was also revealed that the agency used unmarried women as egg donors by falsely portraying them as married through forged documents. This is a clear violation of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021, under which a woman must be married and have at least one child to be eligible for egg donation in India. The second accused, Seema Vinhzarat, told police that she came in contact with agent Sangeeta Bagul in 2022. Between 2023 and 2025, she donated eggs at various clinics in India and abroad, including in Kenya, Kazakhstan and Thailand. Recently, she was taken to Bangkok for egg donation tests, for which she was paid a hefty amount. Investigations further revealed that Seema Vinhzarat carried out egg donation using forged marital documents without fulfilling the mandatory legal requirements, which constitutes a criminal offence. Police have seized the accused persons’ mobile phones, passports, boarding passes, medical reports and other digital evidence. A serious case has been registered against the accused under various sections of the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021, along with provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. Police said further investigation is underway to identify and ascertain the role of other individuals linked to the illegal network.

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