A division bench of the high court gave bail to Chanda and Deepak Kochhar, arrested last month for a loan fraud case filed in 2019, on the ground that not disclosing true and correct facts cannot be the reason for one’s arrest.

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IN a significant decision, the Bombay High Court on Monday declared the arrest of Chanda Kochhar, former ICICI bank managing director and chief executive officer, and her husband, businessman Deepak Kochhar, illegal, holding that their non-disclosure of true and correct facts cannot be a reason for their arrest inasmuch as the right against self-incrimination is provided for in Article 20(3) of the Constitution.

The duo were arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (‘CBI’) last month in lieu of a first information report (‘FIR’) registered against them in 2019 in a case linked to alleged irregularities in a Rs. 3,000-crore loan provided to the Videocon Group when Chanda Kochhar was heading the private sector bank. Both are facing charges under Sections 120B and 420 of the Indian Penal Code, and Sections 7 and 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) (this latter provision was removed by a legislative amendment in 2018) of the Prevention of Corruption Act.

A division bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Prithviraj K. Chavan found the arrest of the duo not in accordance with the law as there was non-compliance with the mandate of Sections 41(1)(b)(ii), 41A and 60A of the Code of Criminal Procedure Code (‘CrPC’).

BEGUSARAI: Two-year-old Dharmraj, who was an inmate of a specialized adoption agency at Begusarai till Friday, would soon have a new address in Halmstad, a city in South Sweden. Swedish couple Sanjay Daniel and Chitra Sanjay Daniel adopted Dharmraj after completing all the formalities of adoption at DM's office here on Saturday.
 

Begusarai DM Roshan Kushwaha said Dharmraj's adoption has been channelled through the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), a statutory body of ministry of women and child development.
 

"His adoption by the Swedish couple was cleared after completion of all the due processes on Saturday. The adoption policy is now a bit flexible after certain amendments. The desiring couples or any individual may now go for the process online through CARA. I hope the child under his new parents would have a bright future," he said.

Sanjay, who is of Indian origin, told TOI that his parents had also adopted him. "My parents, who are Swedish, adopted me from an orphanage in Mumbai in 1984," he said. His wife Chitra however, is of Swedish origin. She seemed to be enjoying her visit at Begusarai as a large crowd gathered curiously outside the DM's office on Saturday afternoon to see them with the child.Sanjay works as a business developer while Chitra works as a librarian in a local school in Halmstad. The couple would stay here till Wednesday and then proceed to New Delhi for completing Dharmraj's immigration procedure.

Coordinator of the Begusarai-based specialised adoption agency, Ritu Singh said, "Dharmraj is enjoying shopping with his new parents. He was brought here from the child welfare centre at Lakhisarai," she said.
 

Dahod (Gujarat), Jan 7 (IANS): Police in Gujarat's Dahod have arrested four people for the illegal adoption of an infant.

Dahod Child Protection Officer S.K. Taviyad told IANS: "We had received specific information about an illegal adoption. On January 5, along with local police and Child Welfare Committee members, we carried out search at Ritadevi and Vijay Chauhan's residence and found a month-old infant. Upon inquiry, it was found that they were not the biological parents of the child, but had adopted him from Ramilaben and her husband Raisingh Bhabhor."

The Chauhans also admitted that they got a birth certificate for the boy in the name of Suryakumar Vijay Chauhan.

After verifying all details, Taviyad lodged a complaint against Ramilaben and Raisingh for intentionally abandoning the child and against Ritadevi and Vijay for the violation of Juvenile Justice Act's adoption procedure.

The Chauhans were also booked for forgery.

The sources added that it became a surprise for the lawyers in the apex court corridors, when the CJI came to the first court with his two daughters.

The Chief Justice of India (CJI), Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, on Friday brought his two foster daughters to visit the Supreme Court.

According to top court sources familiar with the development, at around 10 a.m., the CJI brought his two daughters, who are differently-abled, to the courtroom from the public gallery.

The sources added that it became a surprise for the lawyers in the apex court corridors, when the CJI came to the first court with his two daughters.

A source said that Chandrachud could be heard telling his daughters, "See, that is where I sit", as he took them on a tour of the apex court premises.

In this report, Deji Lambo writes on the tortuous journey of a mother of three, Fortune Obhafuoso; her failed plan to make her life better through surrogacy; and other risky episodes that culminated in a policeman allegedly conniving with yet-to-be-identified persons to pay her N185,000 after collecting her newborn against her will

Fortune Obhafuoso, 35, was embittered as she gave an account of how her day-old child was taken from her at a Lagos State police formation where detectives investigating high-profile criminal cases are domiciled.

The mother of three said after the baby was taken, a policeman, Samuel Ukpabio, threatened her never to return for the child.

Afterward, she was conciliated with N15,000 and thrown out.

“All I want is my baby; I gave birth to him around 12.30am on Friday, December 23, 2022, and immediately named him Joseph. I only breastfed him once because, on the same day I gave birth to him, I was arrested and taken alongside my three children to the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba, Lagos State.

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Girl adopted by Australian couple 15 years back now searches for her biological mother in Odisha It was way back in 2007 when Mamata, who was only a three-year-old kid, was rescued from near Puri Sighadwara. Later, she was handed over to Basundhara Childcare Centre in Cuttack.

“Knowing that she is afflicted with leprosy, she took a harsh decision and let me go. She is a great mother as she did it for me so that I can lead a decent life.” These lines from a daughter for her mother are enough to melt one's heart.

These excerpts are from a letter written by Mamata, who was adopted by an Australian couple some 15 years back in Odisha, to Puri Childline Director.

Girl adopted by Australian couple 15 years back now searches for her biological mother in Odisha It was way back in 2007 when Mamata, who was only a three-year-old kid, was rescued from near Puri Sighadwara. Later, she was handed over to Basundhara Childcare Centre in Cuttack.

“Knowing that she is afflicted with leprosy, she took a harsh decision and let me go. She is a great mother as she did it for me so that I can lead a decent life.” These lines from a daughter for her mother are enough to melt one's heart.

These excerpts are from a letter written by Mamata, who was adopted by an Australian couple some 15 years back in Odisha, to Puri Childline Director.

Finding a surrogate in Colombia is as easy as buying or selling a second-hand car in the classified ads. One need only go on Facebook to find dozens of ads: “Surrogate for hire, I’m from Colombia,” says one. “Hello, I am interested in becoming a surrogate. Strong womb and pregnancies without complications,” reads another. Like a huge auction, the messages compete with each other to offer potential clients what they believe are the most advantageous conditions. On these same websites, buyers make their demands clear. In general, the interested parties are looking for what any customer would seek in a classified ad: good quality at a fair price.

In Colombia, buying babies through surrogacy is becoming increasingly common. This practice – which is prohibited in Spain, France, Germany and elsewhere – is not regulated in Colombia. Dozens of agencies and clinics take advantage of that legal vacuum to do business, usually with foreigners who go to the Andean country looking for a surrogate and as little red tape as possible.

Yamile is a 33-year-old from Barranquilla. She is one of the women who advertising her services as a surrogate in an online forum. “We have a clinic here that does the whole procedure for you, and I have a cousin who takes care of all the paperwork for us,” she tells a potential client over the phone. Yamile can’t bring herself to say when she will be paid.

- How much are they offering?

- 20 million pesos [about $4,000].

Western volunteers do more harm than good in African orphanages. Ban this 'orphanage tourism', says Arne Doornebal.

HThe idea that 'we' from the West will sometimes help poor countries to 'develop' is based on a bad idea of ??superiority. NRC 's analysis of the Dutch apologies for the slavery past (24/12) examined how that past still has an effect today. Striking and perhaps also painful for many readers: development cooperation was soon mentioned.

I immediately thought of one of the excesses in that area, which is not even qualified as development aid. That is the large number of young volunteers who, driven by an urge for adventure or the hope of ending up in heaven, go to Africa. There, usually not hindered by any experience of working with children, they go to work as volunteers in orphanages. Voluntourism is what this is called in English: a combination of volunteer work and tourism.

The proliferation of orphanages is clearly visible in Uganda, traditionally a country that is very popular with do-gooders. In 2018, the Ugandan government stated that more than five hundred orphanages were operating without a permit. It is estimated that more than 50,000 children live in orphanages in that country. This is striking, in a country where children of deceased parents are almost always taken care of by relatives. The main reason for the existence of these orphanages is the fact that western volunteers are lured to them, because they usually also bring a lot of money.

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