Individuals in a live-in relationship will once again be able to adopt children from and within India after the country’s nodal adoption agency decided to withdraw a circular issued earlier this year disallowing them from doing so.

The Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), in a circular issued on May 31, barred applicants in a live-in relationship from adopting a child on the ground that “the Authority would like the children to be placed only with a stable family and individuals in a live-in relationship cannot be considered as stable family.”

“We have decided to withdraw the circular and applications from prospective adoptive parents will be examined on a case-by-case basis,” Secretary, Women and Child Development Ministry, R.K. Shrivastava told The Hindu on Thursday.

The decision was taken at the last meeting of the steering committee of CARA, chaired by Mr. Shrivastava, in August, and will benefit both domestic and international applicants.

The eligibility criteria under Adoption Regulations, 2017, permit single women to adopt a child of any gender, while single men can adopt only boys. When a married couple seeks to adopt a child, it needs to give its consent for adoption and should be stable marriage for at least two years. Applicants have to be physically, mentally and financially stable to raise a child.

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A case had been registered based on the complaint filed by the family members of one of the girls, and an investigation has started.

Two girls aged, 11 and 12 years, were allegedly raped by two persons, one of them a minor. According to police one of the girls passed away late on Wednesday night. According to Maharashtra police, the incident took place on two occasions between September 11 and 18.

One of the perpetrators, a 22-year-old has been arrested. The other, a 17-year-old, has been detained, a senior police officer said. He added that a case had been registered based on the complaint filed by the family members of one of the girls, and an investigation has started.

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In a case of human trafficking, Mandsaur police have arrested five persons for selling children from Bihar under the garb of adoption through legal means.

The main accused, Kaveri Bai is absconding, police said on Thursday.

Senior police official Rakesh Mohan Shukla said they had received information that adoption papers were being prepared for two girls in the Mandsaur court, but in reality they were being sold for Rs 30,000 each.

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MAIN PROVISIONS FOR SURRENDER OF INDIAN PASSPORT / RENUNCIATION OF INDIAN CITIZENSHIP

Under Indian law, Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs), who have acquired foreign citizenship, are required to surrender their Indian passports to the nearest Indian Mission/Post immediately after acquisition of foreign citizenship.

The Surrender Certificate, once obtained, should be produced henceforth for any services from the Embassy of India, The Hague and copy of the Surrender Certificate/Declaration of Renunciation of Citizenship of India should be enclosed with any application in future.

The Indian Citizenship Act, 1955, does not allow dual citizenship. Holding Indian passport/acquiring Indian passport/travelling on Indian passport after acquisition of foreign citizenship constitutes an offence under the Indian Passport Act, 1967, and attracts penalties. The Government of India has prescribed imposition of penalty on a graded scale for the violation of Passport Rules, depending on number of trips made on Indian passport after acquiring foreign nationality (with a three month grace period from the date of acquiring foreign nationality i.e. the date of Naturalisation certificate), renewal of Indian passport after acquiring foreign nationality and retention of Indian Passport for more than 3 years after acquiring of foreign nationality. The date on the Naturalisation Certificate will be treated as date of acquiring foreign nationality and hence, it is mandatory for the applicants to produce his / her Naturalisation Certificate for obtaining Surrender Certificate/Declaration of Renunciation of Citizenship of India.

Provisions on declaration of Renunciation / Surrender Certificate under different scenario:-

LUDHIANA: The child trafficking gang that Ludhiana rural pol ..

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Punjab: Gang involved in ‘sale’ of newborn babies busted, 4 held

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Police said that the gang used to ‘buy’ newborn babies from poor couples like labourers, daily wagers and sell them to childless couples and other needy families who used to pay them hefty amounts. (Representational)

The Ludhiana Rural police have busted an inter-state gang of child traffickers who allegedly used to buy and sell newborn babies in states of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan.

Four accused, including the kingpin Labh Singh have been arrested, while one woman is still absconding. The five accused include four women.

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CUTTACK: Once their families had deserted them as they were girls. Now, they are leading a dignified life though in a different country. It has been a long journey of sweet and bitter memories for the girls who were adopted by a couple from Spain from city-based orphanage Basundhara.

While Laxmi of Paradip has been renamed as Spaniard Maria Laxmi, Sagarika has become Lope Nieto Sagarika. Laxmi is working as an administrative officer in a popular television channel in Spain after completing her education and 18-year-old Sagarika of Patulipank in Kendrapara is studying in a secondary school in the same country.

As per reports, Laxmi at the age of nine was engaged as domestic help in a doctor’s house at Mangalabag and tortured physically. She was rescued by an NGO and rehabilitated in Basundhara after her father and stepmother refused to take her back in 1999.

Spanish couple Antonio Hernandez Torres and Maria Cruz Sanchez adopted her in 2001. Similarly, Sagarika, who was rescued by another NGO at the age of six in 2007, was rehabilitated in the orphanage. She was also adopted by the Spanish couple in 2008.

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Laxmi and Sagarika with their foster parent in Cuttack | Express By Express News Service

CUTTACK: Once their families had deserted them as they were girls. Now, they are leading a dignified life though in a different country. It has been a long journey of sweet and bitter memories for the girls who were adopted by a couple from Spain from city-based orphanage Basundhara.

While Laxmi of Paradip has been renamed as Spaniard Maria Laxmi, Sagarika has become Lope Nieto Sagarika. Laxmi is working as an administrative officer in a popular television channel in Spain after completing her education and 18-year-old Sagarika of Patulipank in Kendrapara is studying in a secondary school in the same country.

As per reports, Laxmi at the age of nine was engaged as domestic help in a doctor’s house at Mangalabag and tortured physically. She was rescued by an NGO and rehabilitated in Basundhara after her father and stepmother refused to take her back in 1999.

Spanish couple Antonio Hernandez Torres and Maria Cruz Sanchez adopted her in 2001. Similarly, Sagarika, who was rescued by another NGO at the age of six in 2007, was rehabilitated in the orphanage. She was also adopted by the Spanish couple in 2008.