Eight months pregnant with twins, Pooja Chheda’s spirits are buoyant with hope and expectation. You might find something amiss when the 30-year-old tells you that her dreams mostly revolve around ‘good books, new uniforms, shoes’ and other paraphernalia of school education that ‘a normal child of a rich parent’ has access to.

Scarred by the incident and desperate to prevent a repeat, Pooja took the radical step of putting her womb up for rent. Representation pic