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In the present case, the activist had sought prosecution of the actor, his wife and their doctors on the basis of a news report in a city newspaper in June 2013 which claimed that the star couple were having a baby boy through surrogacy. She alleged the doctors had allegedly violated the provisions of PC-PNDT Act, 1994 that prohibits sex determination of a fetus. The Trial Court had rejected her application under Section 28(3) of the PC-PNDT Act seeking directions to the local Municipal Corporation to produce all records of the surrogate mother and test conducted on her in order to support her case. <o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span lang=\"EN-IN\">The Court discussed Section 28(3) in light of the objective of the legislation, <\/span><span lang=\"EN-IN\">right to privacy of the stakeholders in cases of surrogacy and<\/span><span lang=\"EN-IN\"> the scope of the word &#8216;may&#8217; used in Section 28(3) indicating discretion given to the Court to direct the Appropriate Authority to handover the documents or not. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-IN\">Mr. Uday Warunjikar, the counsel for the Petitioner contended that the word \u2018may\u2019 as it appears in Section 28(3) of the PCPNDTAct should be read as &#8216;shall&#8217;. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-IN\">Mr Pranav Badheka appearing for respondents Shahrukh Khan and Gauri Khan,&nbsp; s<\/span><span lang=\"EN-IN\">ubmitted that if the word \u2018may\u2019 is read as \u2018shall\u2019, it would be a mechanical order, leaving no discretion whatsoever, in the Magistrate and would thereby violate the right to privacy of the parties involved in the surrogacy. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-IN\">The Court after listening to all arguments including Senior Counsel MPS Rao, held that it was<\/span><span lang=\"EN-IN\"> for the Magistrate to consider whether the demand of documents\/records from the Appropriate Authority is genuine, bonafide etc and declined to interfere with the magistrate&#8217;s order. <\/span><span lang=\"EN-IN\">&nbsp;<\/span><i><span lang=\"EN-IN\">Varsha Laxman Deshpande vs. Municipal Commissioner, Criminal Writ Petition No. 4164 of 2013<\/span><\/i><span lang=\"EN-IN\">, decided on June 19, 2014<\/span><\/p>\n<p ><span lang=\"EN-IN\"> <!--if !supportLineBreakNewLine-->To read the full judgment, refer to <a 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