Click to play videoNew Delhi: There is finally some hope for the two-week-old Menji. The Anand Municipality has issued her a birth certificate.
The certificate, with Manji's father Ikufumi Yamada's name on it, will hasten the process of securing a temporary passport for the baby from the Japanese embassy, facilitating her travel to her native country, Director of city-based Arya Hospital (where Menji is admitted) Dr Sanjay Arya, said.
It will also help the father in getting custody of the child. Menji has for now, been living with her grandmother in Jaipur.
The father's lawyers had filed a legal notice against the Anand Municipal Corporation for not issuing the birth certificate.
The birth certificate has now been sent to Supreme Court lawyer Indira Jaisingh, who is pursuing the case, for further action. Jaisingh, the lawyer of the child's grandmother Emiko, will initiate the process for obtaining passport.
Menji was born of an Indian surrogate mother and has now been living with her grandmother in Jaipur. She was born in Anand.
The baby got caught in a legal wrangle after she was delivered by her surrogate mother in Anand, Gujarat on July 25. Her father separated from his wife, Yuki, before the baby was born and Yuki subsequently disowned the child.
As Indian law does not allow her father - now single - to adopt her, Ikufami could not take the child out of the country despite wanting to do so.
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