The future of an infant born of an Indian surrogate mother is uncertain as her biological parents, a Japanese couple, divorced after conception.

Abandoned by her Japanese and the Indian mother, the baby is now under her grandmother's care in a hospital in Jaipur, in western Rajasthan state.

Manji Yamada is the daughter of a Japanese couple, Dr. Ikufumi Yamada, 45, and Yuki Yamada, 41, delivered by a surrogate mother in Ahmedadbad, Gujrat. She was born on July 25, a month after her biological parents divorced.

Yamada and his then-wife had signed a surrogacy agreement with Priti Patel in November. Since her parents are now divorced, the father is not able to take custody of her as Indian law makes it almost impossible for single men of foreign origin to adopt children. The Indian surrogate has given up the child.

Commercial surrogacy has been legal in India since 2002 and the child born of such an agreement is then legally adopted by its biological parents. Adoption is the only route through which parents can take custody of surrogate babies.

The trend of surrogacy, also known as renting the womb, is growing in India. The women, often poor women with little education, are impregnated in-vitro with the egg and sperm of couples from all over the world who are facing fertility problems.

Surrogate mothers earn between $4,500 and $5,000, plus all medical costs, for the service. The entire procedure costs about $10,000.