Baby not for adoption: Child panel

Kochi: Ernakulam Child Welfare Committee has decided to cancel the procedures to declare the baby, who was illegally adopted by a couple from Tripunithura, as free for adoption. The committee has made the decision after the biological parents of the six-months-old baby turned up before CWC and requested to keep the baby with the committee for some time, expressing their helplessness to take the baby home now.

"We haven't asked about their inability to take the baby home now. Since they have expressed the willingness to take back the baby but requested more time, we have cancelled the procedure for legally declaring the baby as ready for adoption," said a CWC official.

The baby is currently under care in a childcare home functioning with the government's approval. The illegal adoption of the baby, born at Kalamassery medical college, came to light after a municipality staff filed a complaint against a staff in the hospital for allegedly making a fake birth certificate.

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