India, July 19 -- The Haryana health department and Gurugram Police have busted an illegal in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) centre in Sushant Lok Phase 1 in Gurugram that allegedly operated a cross-border surrogacy racket catering to infertile couples from India, China, and Australia. Police said on Thursday they recovered 84 cryogenically frozen embryos prepared for implantation into surrogate mothers during a raid late last month.

The centre, operating under the name Fertility Cure Centre, functioned in the guise of an ultrasound clinic from a five-storey building in Block B of Sushant Lok Phase 1, according to the FIR whose copy is with HT. It had allegedly been running for over a year, illegally extracting, processing, and storing gamete...