‘I love these twins, but where are mine?’ An IVF mix-up raises questions

Forty-year-old Rahul Rathor seems like one of those annoyingly happy new fathers who eagerly pull out their children’s photos and videos for unsuspecting strangers to admire. The video he plays has pink and blue balloons, a tiny cupcake with a candle, a happy tune playing in the background, and twin infants in fluffy white dresses.

But he isn’t sure the kids he and his wife, Meenu, are showering affection on are theirs.
Earlier this week, the Gurugram couple publicly alleged that the twin girls born to them on January 5 this year through an assisted reproductive technology (ART) procedure were genetically not theirs. They posted a video alleging that there had been an embryo swap at the fertility clinic or a child swap at the hospital where the delivery took place, setting off a complicated saga involving the fertility clinic, hospital, police and courts that is unlikely to be resolved soon.