It was a dilemma: Return a five-year-old to his mother with drug-riddled prison records or let his foster parents adopt him.

In a rare move, District Judge Shobha Nair overruled the objections and allowed the adoption based on the Adoption of Children Act.

But the natural parents have appealed against her order, she said while giving the grounds for her decision last week.

The judge said: "The straitened choice before the court was this - to endorse the request of foster parents to adopt a five-year-old twin boy they had been looking after since birth or to return him to his natural mother who is soon to complete an imprisonment term."

She added: "I allowed the adoption."

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The Punjab and Haryana high court has asked ministry of external affairs (MEA) to apprise it whether for adoption under the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act (HAMA)-1956, no objection certificate (NOC) from the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) is mandatory.

The response was sought on the plea from a two- year- old girl, adopted by an NRI couple. She was one of the twins born to a Jalandhar couple and subsequently adopted by NRI sister of her natural mother. They had applied for passport, but it was refused on the ground that there was no NOC from CARA. It is a statutory body for adoption of Indian children and is mandated to monitor and regulate in-country and inter-country adoptions. CARA is established under Juvenile Justice Act (JJA), 2015.

The girl was born in November 2017 to a Sikh family in Jalandhar. She was adopted as per Sikh rites performed at a local Gurdwara as both the sides of parents were Sikhs to which a certificate too was issued. An adoption deed was executed between both the parents in November 2018 under the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act (as applicable to Sikhs). Thereafter, the family applied for girl’s passport which was rejected by authorities stating that NOC from CARA was mandatory.

As per petitioner girl’s advocate SS Nara, Section 56 (3) of the JJ Act 2015 states that the provisions of the JJ Act would not be applicable to the adoption of children made under the provisions of HAMA, latter being a ‘special law’. JJ Act does not override the provisions of HAMA Act, it was argued adding that in view of this passport cannot be denied.

On the other hand, Central government counsel had argued it is a mandatory procedure for the adoption to be ratified by CARA, even though JJ Act would not be applicable to an adoption under HAMA. There are notifications which categorically state that the Hague Convention itself mandates adoptions to be through CARA alone, the counsel had added.

Adoptions can be long and frustrating affairs with prospective adoptive parents (PAPs) having to navigate bureaucratic rules,

paperwork and legal availability of children but the Covid-19 lockdown is really testing their patience. After a threeyear wait,

Sandeep Kishore and Vidya Venkataramanan, academics based in Chicago, were finally set to bring home a one-and-a-halfyearold child from Maharashtra. All their paperwork was done, and the child’s passport was ready. But then, the world shut

down. And the couple couldn’t fly in to take custody of the boy.

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Update: Terre des Hommes en adopties uit Bangladesh

20 May 2020

Terre des Hommes investigates adoptions from Bangladesh

In de jaren ‘70 zijn ongeveer 500 kinderen via het Bureau Interlandelijke Adopties (BIA, nu Wereldkinderen) vanuit Bangladesh naar Nederland gekomen. Sommigen vermoeden dat een aantal van deze kinderen tegen de wil van hun ouders in de adoptieprocedure zou zijn opgenomen. Hoewel dit nooit bewezen is, wordt Terre des Hommes hier, naast Wereldkinderen en de Nederlandse staat ook op aangesproken.

TEHRAN – Child adoption has increased in the country, as some 2,000 children are adopted annually, 1,700 of whom are placed for permanent adoption and 300 in temporary custody, Habibollah Masoudi, deputy director of the Welfare Organization has stated.

Following the Law on Protection of Children and Adolescents in [the Iranian calendar year] 1392 (March 2013-March 2014), the number of adoption cases has increased and 2,000 children are placed for adoption annually, some of whom are placed under temporary custody because a temporary trustee is better than care centers, he explained.

For adoption, criteria like mental health, the ability to take care of a child, no addiction, no criminal record, and bad reputation, as well as proper income must be achieved. The approach is the result of studying the adoption process in 10 countries around the world, he noted.

He went on to say that many countries in the world have stricter rules for adoption than Iran. For example, driving violations are considered for adoption. It is believed that those who commit traffic violations are lawbreakers and cannot be good parents, also issues such as parties and home safety are considered in some countries.

Last year, 160 children were adopted who were suffering from diseases or disabilities. Also, 130 children were given to single girls over the age of 30, he stated.

Sri Lankan adoption fraud lawyer: 'Not a child in need, but business'

May 18, 2020 12:53 pm

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The adoption of the now 28-year-old Dilani Butink from Sri Lanka was not a matter of a child in need. "It was just business," said the woman's lawyer in a civil case that was brought to blame the State and the Kind en Toekomst (Child and Future) adoption agency for the adoption fraud.

Butink's Dutch adoptive parents traveled to Sri Lanka in 1992 to adopt a girl. This adoption unexpectedly fell through and after a week, Butink, then one or two days old, was suddenly offered to the couple.