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Nathalie Deffond with Chaitanya, whom she she adopted from the Child Welfare Council in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday

Nathalie Deffond with Chaitanya, whom she she adopted from the Child Welfare Council in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday

doctor and his wife, who were detained on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in the sale of newborn babies, were arrested by the Shivajinagar (Ichalkaranji) police on Wednesday.

A local court remanded the accused, Arun Bhupal Patil and Ujwalla, to seven days in police custody.

Patil ran a general surgical and maternity hospital at Jawaharlal Nagar in Ichalkaranji. A team from the Central Adoption Resources Authority (CARA) and the district women and child welfare committee raided the hospital on Tuesday night and handed over the couple to the police.

Deputy superintendent of police Vinayak Narale said Patil has confessed to having sold two newborn babies for Rs 2 lakh each in the last three months.

Police have also booked a couple from Chhattisgarh who purchased one of the newborns from Patil and his wife. The other baby was sold to a couple from Mumbai. Narale said, "We are gathering information about the couples and their exact addresses." Police are examining several documents seized from Patil's hospital. "We are also questioning the staff working at the hospital," Narale said.

ROORKEE: Moved by the plight of a mentally unsound destitute woman, who was raped by an unknown person and who gave birth to a baby girl on Tuesday, some local residents have come forward to adopt the baby. "The woman and her newborn baby girl was brought to hospital around 8.30 am. "We have to discharge the mother and the child in two or three days from hospital. Since the umbilical cord was still attached to the newborn baby, people called an 108 ambulance to take her to the town's civil hospital. But since the woman's mental health is not normal and she shows volatile mood swings, we have approached the mental hospital for her treatment.

ROORKEE: Moved by the plight of a mentally unsound destitute woman, who was raped by an unknown person and who gave birth to a baby girl on Tuesday, some local residents have come forward to adopt the baby.

Doctors at the civil hospital, where the woman and her child are admitted, said the law does not permit them to hand over the child to others for adoption without following legal procedures, which take time.

Some locals said that they had heard that about two years ago, the woman had given birth to a baby boy but the mother threw the baby into a nearby canal.Officials at the hospital said that three people have approached them so far for adopting the child.

"We have to discharge the mother and the child in two or three days from hospital.

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New report on the Sale of Children and Illegal Adoption published by ECPAT, DCI and Terre des Hommes

Discover the new co-published report, written by Nigel Cantwell (founder of DCI and international consultant on child protection) covering the study made by DCI in the area of sale of children and illegal adoption.

Illicit practices in relation to the adoption of children have been a serious concern for many decades, particularly – though not solely – with regard to those involving the transfer of children abroad (intercountry adoption). The 1980s saw a phenomenal increase in allegations of malpractice and the realisation that the legal and human rights framework for intercountry adoption was wholly inadequate to prevent children being “legally adopted” as a result of illegalities at various stages in the adoption process. These concerns came to inspire in particular the emphasis, in international standards, on protecting the rights of children for whom intercountry adoption might be envisaged or is already under way.

In 2016, the current UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Maud de Boer Buquicchio, commissioned a research paper on “illegal adoptions”, both domestic and intercountry, to inform the thematic report on this subject that she presented to the 34th session of the Human Rights Council in March 2017.

The present publication is an adapted version of that research paper. Its main focus is on illegal intercountry adoptions. It seeks to pinpoint in particular the systemic factors that create the conditions in which illegal adoptions can thrive and to propose effective responses on the part of all actors, with special attention topreventive approaches.

Resources Authority (CARA) and District Women and Child Welfare Committee busted a racket of human-trafficking in which a homoeopathic doctor was allegedly involved in selling newborn babies at a hospital, following a raid in Ichalkaranji, Kolhapur, on Tuesday. He confessed to selling a new-born to a couple in Mumbai.

A case has been filed against him, his wife and the couple who adopted the baby, police said. Police said the couple will be arrested after interrogation. The doctor, Arun Patil, confessed to selling two babies in three months. He said he charged Rs 2 lakh for a baby.

Priyadarshini Chorage, district head of the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), who was part of the team that conducted the raid at General Surgical and Maternity Hospital, said they received information from CARA officials about the illegal activities on Monday. "When we entered the hospital and asked Patil about the racket, he confessed. He claimed he was doing it in the interest of society and it was for free. He used to facilitate deliveries for unmarried women and would then sell the babies. He used to hand over the money received to the mother."

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"He confessed to selling a four-day-old baby to a family in Chhattisgarh on December 23, 2017. The baby, born to a minor, was sold for Rs 2 lakh," she said. He also confessed to selling a newborn to a couple in Mumbai but has not revealed the details, she added.

An adopted child is a legal heir of a parent, the Madras High Court has said. The adopted child must get all rights like a biological child, the court also said. Justice K Ravichandrabaabu gave the ruling while allowing a petition from M G Mamtha and her adopted daughter C Soundarya challenging the rejection of their application for grant of legal heir certificate by a revenue department official. The judge directed the tehsildar of Dhenkanikottai in Krishnagiri district to issue the legal heir certificate to them which they had applied after the death of Mamtha's husband and adoptive father of Soundarya last year. The tehsildar had rejected the application on the ground that the second respondent being an adopted daughter cannot be considered as Class I heir as per the Hindu Succession Act. Mamtha and her husband S Chandrasekar had adopted Soundarya, daughter of the former's brother, in 1987 as per the family's custom and a deed of adoption was entered into on November 24, 1994. The judge said a perusal of the Hindu Succession Act and the decision of the Supreme Court would show without any ambiguity that an adopted child, from the date of the legal adoption, becomes the child of adoptive father or mother for all purposes. It should be borne in mind that such adopted child is the child of the adoptive family by legal creation, which confers all rights on the adopted child as a biological child.Soundarya becomes the Class I heir of the deceased and thus, entitled to get her name also included in the heirship certificate, he said, directing issuance of the document.

Read more at: https://www.oneindia.com/india/adopted-and-biological-children-have-similar-rights-madras-hc-2636396.html

Srinagar, Feb 06: Two of the three babies abandoned at the Lal Ded (LD) Hospital here last month have finally been adopted.

In January, two girls and a boy were found in the premises of the hospital.

Since then, the hospital staff has been taking care of them.

A senior official, requesting not to be quoted by name, told The Kashmir Monitor that the boy and a girl were adopted by two childless couples.

“It’s nice to see childless parents coming forward and adopting the babies. Although the boy is still with us, the girl has been taken by her new parents,” the official revealed.

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The judges were surprised to note that absolutely no attempts were made to trace the biological father of the girl, after her mother failed to report back(FILE)

The Bombay high court on Wednesday said child welfare committees must attempt to trace biological parents of abandoned children before declaring them free for adoption.

“With the advancement in technology, it is not difficult today to trace a person,” said a bench of justice Naresh Patil and justice Nitin Sambre. The bench was hearing plea filed by a city couple seeking direction to the child welfare committee (CWC) of Mumbai suburban district to declare a child put in their foster care free for adoption.

The couple, which wishes to adopt the two-and-half-year-old girl, approached the high court after finding the CWC was reluctant to declare the child free for adoption. The CWC has placed the girl in foster care of the petitioner couple ever since she has been surrendered by her biological mother.

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