India, June 3 -- While setting aside an order that denied permission for a Bangladeshi woman to donate a kidney to her minor son, the Madras High Court said that "a mother's claim to her child should not be casually doubted".

In an order passed last week, Justice GR Swaminathan of the Madras High Court found fault with the approach adopted by the Tamil Nadu Authorisation Committee, which regulates living donor organ transplants to prevent commercial dealings.

The committee had rejected a Bangladeshi family's application for a kidney transplant after concluding that the marital relationship between the child's parents had not been established.

Justice Swaminathan said that one must keep in mind the special significance that is attached ...