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Court stops DCI from arresting IVF doctor in row over surrogate child's skin colour

IVF and Human fetus with DNA strand. [Courtesy, GettyImages]

The High Court in Nairobi has barred the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the police and the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) from arresting or charging a gynaecologist in a row over the colour of a surrogate child.

Justice Bahati Mwamuye ordered that the DCI should not charge Dr. Sarita Sukhija or any of the employees of Myra In Vitro Fertilisation Clinic in Westlands, Nairobi.

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