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Union minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Sanjay Gandhi said that the government has shut down 28 specialised adoption agencies in six states after allegations of illegal adoptions, child abuse and flouting of norms under J.J. Act. (PTI File Photo )

The government has shut down 28 specialised adoption agencies in six states after allegations of illegal adoptions, child abuse and flouting of norms under J.J. Act surfaced, Union minister Maneka Gandhi told the Rajya Sabha on Thursday.

In the wake of alleged rape of inmates of a shelter home in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur and another in Deoria, Uttar Pradesh, Gandhi also requested parliamentarians to visit the shelter homes periodically to check the living conditions and level of care provided to the children.

The Minister for Women and Child Development (WCD) also said that there were only 43 complaints regarding child abuse and neglect in shelter homes and Child Care Institutions (CCIs) from 2014 to 2018, out of which 38 have been disposed of.

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The ordeal of children illegally adopted from a maternity home in Mysuru by childless couples is far from over.

Four months after a city court gave interim custody of three children to couples who had adopted them illegally by paying money, the order has been recalled. This follows an appeal filed by the Mysuru district Child Welfare Committee (CWC).

The Principal Senior Chief Judicial Magistrate’s court in Mysuru has directed the caregivers to hand over custody of the children to the CWC. Two of the children are girls, aged six and seven, while one is a boy aged less than three.

Notice to caregivers

Based on the court order dated August 4, CWC has issued notices to the caregivers to immediately hand over custody of the children. While the six-year-old girl is with her caregivers in Thrissur in Kerala, the boy is with his caregivers in Dakshina Kannada. The seven-year-old girl is in Mysuru.

Guwahati: The Assam State Commission for Protection of Child Rights (ASCPCR) is conducting an inquiry into the alleged sexual assault on three inmates of the SOS Children's Village here at Borjhar.

Police on Thursday arrested the assistant director of SOS Children's Village, Loon Vaiphei, 44, on the charge of sexually abusing the minors and registered a case against him at Azara police station under Section 10 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act, 2012.

The commission's chairperson, Sunita Changkakati, said a three-member team of the commission led by Rupa Hazarika visited the SOS Village on Monday and spoke to the victims, officials of the village and police.

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Changkakati said though the police promptly registered the case and arrested the accused, they did not conduct the medical examination of the victims till the team visited the village on Monday. "The victims were also not produced before the Child Welfare Committee," she said.

On a cold afternoon in 2017, I was fighting off the urge for a nap when a message popped up on Facebook:

Ms. Demick. You contacted me a long time ago? Are you still interested in talking with me? If so, my family and I are interested.

I was the New York correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and was exhausted from covering the aftermath of the presidential inauguration. I tapped out a curt reply, saying I didn’t know who he was.

My mom adopted a little Chinese girl years ago … and it appears like she has a twin sister still in China.

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Recently the Bombay high court reunited a 14-year-old Hindu girl with the four-member Muslim family that brought her up ever since her biological mother abandoned her.

Justice Gautam Patel of Bombay high court ignored the biological mother’s plea for her custody primarily on the ground that the woman was involved in some immoral activity.

The girl was handed over the foster family on July 24.

The Muslim family filed a Petition in the high court, seeking guardianship of the girl. They contended that she had been living with them and has been taken care of as a family member since her biological mother abandoned her and moved to Kanpur.

The Petitioner Family complained that the biological mother returned to Mumbai and demanded the girl’s custody. They said the biological mother and one of her male friends had forcibly taken away the girl. The girl was brought back only after the petitioners approached the Child Welfare Committee.

Hyderabad: The Golconda Police on Monday rescued 36 children, including 30 boys and six girls, from an unregistered orphanage in Rajendranagar, and handed them over to the Women and Child Welfare department.

According to the police, the children were rescued from Dove Orphan Children Home at Gandhamguda. “They were in the age group of six to eight years. The owners of home, Esther Rani and Ramesh, used to force the children to beg at public places such as Golconda Fort in the name of raising funds,” police said.

A case was booked against them, after which they were arrested and produced in court. They were remanded in judicial custody.

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The highest number of children available for adoption is from Maharashtra at 376 followed by Odisha at 299, according to an RTI reply.

On a query on the number of children available for adoption in 2017-18, it was informed that the figure is 1,991 including 1,322 girls.

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Nikhil Bhardwaj

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 4

In a major development in the case of adoption of an 11-year-old girl by a couple and her rape by her adoptive father, the police have found that the girl was handed over to the accused couple without following any legal procedure by either party.

The girl’s real mother as well as the middlemen who facilitated her adoption may face action for illegally handing over the girl to strangers.

Nikhil Bhardwaj

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 4

In a major development in the case of adoption of an 11-year-old girl by a couple and her rape by her adoptive father, the police have found that the girl was handed over to the accused couple without following any legal procedure by either party.

The girl’s real mother as well as the middlemen who facilitated her adoption may face action for illegally handing over the girl to strangers.