It has been more than six months that Shubhangi Bhostekar has been pleading with the Mulund police to take appropriate action against her husband, as directed by the Maharashtra State Commission for Protection of Child Rights, in an illegal surrogacy case. Officers, however, are just passing the buck.

mid-day had exposed the illegal surrogacy, which had taken place at Jaslok Hospital, on May 26, 2017. In response to the complainant's RTI application, the police station has said the department hasn't received any instruction, even as the commission's reply to another RTI query states it has issued a letter to both the DG and the police station. And in this back-and-forth game, Shubhangi, who has two daughters to take care of, is the one suffering.