India, Feb. 2 -- The Central Government has moved the Delhi High Court challenging an order directing a private hospital to release frozen gametes of an unmarried deceased man to his parents. A bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia issued notice to the parents on Centre's appeal assailing the 2024 verdict of a single judge which held that there was no prohibition against posthumous reproduction if the consent of the sperm or egg owner could be demonstrated.

In its order passed on January 29, the bench listed the appeal for hearing on February 27. During the hearing, the Centre's counsel said the single judge's decision was in the teeth of the existing law on assisted reproduction and surrogacy.

She said the law did...