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  “EGG-CELLENT JUDGMENT”   Surrogacy is an arrangement in which a woman ( the Surrogate ) agrees to carry and give birth to a child on behalf of another person or couple ( the indented parent(s) ). She is also gestational carrier as she is a woman who conceives, carry and gives birth to a child for another person or a couple.  Under the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act 2021 , a woman who is a widow or a divorced between the age of 35-45 years or a couple defined as a legally married woman and man, can avail services of surrogacy if they have a medical condition necessitating this option.  The Man shall be between the age of 26-55 years and the Woman between the aged of 25-50 years shall not have any previous biological, adopted or surrogate child.   There is a ban on Commercial Surrogacy which is a punishable offence with a jail term of 10 years and a fine up to Rupees 10 Lakhs, so as to say that the Law only allows Altruistic Surrogacy where no money exchang...

  “ EMOJI STATUTARY CONSTRUCTION ” Emoji has been derived from the Japanese word meaning “picture character” . Oxford dictionary defines Emoji as a  “small digital image or an icon used to express an idea, emotion etc. in electronic communication".  Unlike plain text where people view the same character in their exchange platforms effectively translate Emoji. The Emoji that a sender chooses is translated to the receiver’s platform rendering since Emoji renders differently on different platforms. The emoji graphic that is send by one person on one device may be quite different than what is seen by the recipient using a different device. Non-Unicode Emojis are usually not compatible across multi-level platforms, so the recipient on the other platforms will see a placeholder symbol replacing a non-Unicode Emoji or nothing at all.   JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION OF EMOJI - VISUAL DECODING- this brings us to the question of visual decoding, very often the small size of ...