BENGALURU: At 237, Karnataka recorded the second highest number of children being given away for in-country adoption

(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/adoption) during 2018-19. Maharashtra

(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/maharashtra) leads the list with 695 children.

The national trend of girl children outnumbering boys was reflected in Karnataka too: 130 girls as against 107 boys. Of the 3,374

children adopted across the country, 1,977 were girls and 1,397 boys.

The matter came to light after the victim approached police to lodge a rape complaint against her uncle

In a bid to avoid social harassment, parents of a 19-year-old rape victim gave away her newborn son to a sanitary worker at civil hospital here, said police on Saturday.

The matter came to light after the victim approached the police to lodge an FIR against the sexual assault. In her complaint, she alleged that her uncle (father’s younger brother) had raped her on multiple occasions.

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On the run since July when the racket was busted, Pawan Kumar Sharma (42) was arrested from the national capital on Thursday, DCP Akbar Pathan said

A key accused in the inter-state child trafficking racket was arrested by the Mumbai Police Crime Branch from Delhi and brought to Mumbai on Friday.

On the run since July when the racket was busted, Pawan Kumar Sharma (42) was arrested from the national capital on Thursday, DCP Akbar Pathan said. He added that Sharma was sent to police custody till August 28 by a local court after he was brought to Mumbai on Friday.

According to police, Sharma ran fertility centres in Delhi and Bengaluru and had been at the centre of the racket, connecting other accused, including surrogate mothers, nurses, the biological parents who allegedly sold their children, and couples who allegedly purchased them.

“He was well acquainted with the supply and demand (for children) owing to the waiting period for adoption of children. Through other co-accused, Sharma managed to get in touch with women who had been surrogates and lured them into the racket. He also had access to childless couples,” a senior police officer probing the case said.

According to crime branch officials, Sharma’s name surfaced during the investigation. Since Sharma was into the fertility business.

Mumbai: Mumbai crime branch investigating inter-state baby selling racket has arrested a Delhi-based fertility centre owner. The accused has been identified as Pawan Kumar Sharma, 43, owner of Unique Fertility Centre in Delhi. On Friday, he was produced before the court, which remanded him in police custody till August 28.

According to crime branch officials, Sharma’s name surfaced during the investigation. Since Sharma was into the fertility business, he was constantly getting demands for children. Acting as a middleman, Sharma gave two boys to different couples in Delhi.

Delhi crime branch has already arrested Neha Gupta, 24, a Delhi resident, for selling two boys to her relatives. The babies were given to Abhinav Agrawal and Rahul Gupta.

The police have rescued the two kids from them. According to the police, Agrawal has a 17-year-old daughter, and wanted a son. Neha sold him a 15-day-old male child for Rs 2 lakh. Rahul Gupta's wife was unable to conceive so he contacted Neha and bought a 14-day-old boy for Rs 3.5 lakh.

Almost 70% unaware of after-care entitlements under the law: study

Nearly 40% of children who leave shelter homes after turning 18 are unable to complete schooling, 50% are unable to find paid work and almost 70% are unaware of their after-care entitlements under the law, finds a study conducted by an NGO across five States.

The study, released on Wednesday, is based on the testimonies of 435 “care leavers” and 100 other key stakeholders such as functionaries working on the ground for child protection. The age of the care leavers was between 17 years and 30 years.

While 48% of these young adults were from government-run institutions, 52% were from NGO-run institutions. Out of the total care leavers, 55% were male and the rest were female.

The study was conducted in Delhi, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Rajasthan by the NGO Udayan Care and was supported by the TATA Trusts and UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund).

Jean-Philippe LEGAUT

Images of abused, malnourished children, deprived of access to care, crammed into unsanitary buildings: in 1989, international opinion discovered with horror the hell of the "Ceausescu orphanages", to the point that their dismantling was a condition sine qua non of Romania's accession to the European Union.

Beyond the sensationalist representations disseminated by the press and international organizations, the reality of this phenomenon is still largely unknown. One thing is certain: due to a cruel lack of means and qualified personnel, these "children of the State" have, by the tens of thousands, endured for years, without any possibility of escape, the harshness of the living conditions under the socialist regime and daily violence within the institutions supposed to support them.

Based on unexplored national and local sources, on numerous testimonies from former minors in care, but also on his twelve years of observation and social work in the field, Jean-Philippe Légaut shows us why and how these structures condemned those they should have protected.

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LUCKNOW: The state cabinet on Tuesday approved the new Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children

(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Care-and-Protection-of-Children)) Rules of 2019, under which all institutes working

with juveniles have to be compulsorily registered. A separate chapter has been included in which provisions for adoption of a

child by an eligible couple have been made more transparent.

The cabinet also sanctioned Rs 1 crore for seting up a botanical garden and Rs 25 lakh for a yoga centre in Dr Bhimrao

A Perth couple says it was “insane” to make them live apart for months for them to be able to bring their adopted daughter to Australia. They say the separation has caused them extreme stress and their children are suffering while they wait to know the fate of their daughter.

Vineet Sharma’s GP says the debilitating back pain the Perth father is suffering from is due to psychosomatic symptoms because of stress. Mr Sharma’s wife, Madhvi Bhatnagar’s health has also deteriorated because of the extreme stress and anxiety resulting from the fact that Ms Bhatnagar had to live in India for many months, away from her husband and son, to meet a visa requirement.

Mr Sharma and Ms Bhatnagar were trying to get their adopted daughter Dhruvita to Australia. One of the preconditions for the visa is that one of the adoptive parents has to live out of Australia for 12 months before the visa application is lodged.

Six-year-old Dhruvita was the biological daughter of Ms Bhatnagar’s sister who passed away when Dhruvita was just one. The couple adopted her as per Indian law in order to raise her in their family in Australia.

When the couple applied for their adopted daughter’s visa, that’s when they say they experienced the “surreal complexities” of Australia’s adoption visas.

1st state consultation on child adoption

Eastern Mirror Desk

Dimapur, Aug. 19: Due to ignorance about customary practices when adopting children, and about the Central Adoption Resource Authority (Cara) Regulations Act of 2017, several cases of illegal and random adoptions have happened in the past.

This is a violation of child rights, which is also a matter of grave concern, a recent consultative event in Dimapur highlighted. Illegal adoption also brings many problems to the family besides causing serious implications for the society in the long run. This was the concern raised by the Nagaland NGOs Forum (NNF).

The NNF’s first consultation on child adoption in the Naga society will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 20 at the Tourist Lodge in Dimapur with the anticipation that caregivers and Nagaland government will consider the endeavour on priority.

AHMEDABAD: She was found from a railway coach at Kalupur railway station (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Kalupurrailway-station) as an infant in June last year.

When the entire train was empty, the Railway Protection Force (RPF) heard a child’s cry and had found the girl child

(https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/girl-child) wrapped in a cloth. As the police could not find her biological parents, the

child was sent to Shishu Gruh in Paldi where she grew up with other children.

After over a year, Kranti, now one and a half years old, will start another journey on Tuesday when she will fly to the US with her