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In a statement, Nova IVF Fertility said that the teenager was screened by a separate company that signed off on having her eggs harvested.
Industry professionals who are critical of the new laws say there's just not enough oversight of this massive industry.
According to the Indian Health Ministry, there's nearly 8,600 fertility clinics and egg banks operating in India.
Just over 3,200 are actually registered.
H says in her experience, the industry does what the industry wants.
She says clinics and egg banks don't look very hard at her IDs.
She has two, and they're fake, to maximise her egg sales.
The fake IDs list her as being under 30, because young women get more business.
She's also lied about her height.
And she's lied about her faith.
But sometimes she pretends she's converted to Hinduism, if that's needed.
Clinic directors say some couples only want eggs from a woman who matches their faith.
Piecing together how the industry functions was not easy.
Doctors and clinic directors don't want to go on the record about their clients or their dealings.
But here's what one prominent fertility doctor told us about the process, on the condition that we don't use her name or voice because she doesn't want to come into the government's crosshairs.
We confirmed her account in dozens of other conversations with researchers, fertility clinic directors and women who sell their eggs.