BMC confirms SRK, wife have baby boy

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Shah Rukh Khan

The long-winding saga of actor Shah Rukh Khan’s surrogate child has taken a new turn after the Mumbai civic body confirmed the birth of the child at Masarani Hospital for Women in Andheri.

Incidentally, the child was born on May 27, well before the controversy surrounding the sex determination of the child began.
However, even after a month, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has not yet been able to ascertain whether there was any sex determination done at any point of the time.
“We received a birth report from our K-ward office, which bore the name of Shah Rukh Khan as father and Gauri Khan as mother,” said BMC executive health officer Arun Bamne. However, the civic body does not know who actually bore the child. “We do not have knowledge about who bore the child, as our officers did not find the entry of the surrogate’s name at Masrani Hospital,” said Dr Bamne.
When contacted, Dr Makarand R. Masrani said, “I would not like to speak on the matter. I consider it a private relationship between a doctor and a patient. I won’t accept or deny whether the said actor’s surrogate child was born in my hospital or not.” Intriguingly, Dr Masarani also added that the controversy surrounding the sex determination of the child is “senseless”.
As per guidelines set by the government of India, it is mandatory that every birth and death should be registered with the municipal corporation within 21 day’s time. In this case, K-ward office received the birth report on June 13 from Masrani Hospital and the BMC headquarters learnt about the same on July 1, informed Dr Bamne.
The birth report of the child, which is available with this newspaper, duly mentions Mr and Mrs Khan as parents, and the address, with the landmark as Bandstand.