Dear PAO,

Two years ago, my brother and his wife, who both work on a cruise ship, legally adopted Den, a 2-year-old boy. I took care of Den when both were away because of the nature of their work. I grew fond of him over the course of time. Sadly, his adoptive parents died due to a shipwreck. As their next of kin, I took Den home. Since then, I have been taking care of my nephew without any problem until one day, the biological parents showed up at my house and told me that they wanted Den back. They told me they should be the ones who should rear their son now that the adoptive parents are gone. I told them that they were not his parents anymore and that, as his aunt, I should be the one who should take care of him. Who between us is correct?

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Rona

Dear Rona,

Smriti Irani also said that more girls are being adopted in the country since the last three years and gave figures for the same.

New Delhi: A child will not have to get adopted if there are more parents who are ready to do the procedure, Women and Child Development Minister Smriti Irani told the Rajya Sabha, underlining that more girl children are being adopted in India in the last three years against boys.

Replying to the supplementaries during question hour, the minister said the average time taken to adopt a child through court processes was so lengthy that a minimum of two years was needed by adoptive parents in terms of waiting and to reduce the time gap the ministry has proposed the amendment in the law, as in many cases it took up to 3.5 years.

"On September 23 this year, we notified the new regulation as there were close to 900 cases pending in states in our high courts. After the states acted on the new resolution, over 580 children have already been adopted, including children who are in the 'hard to place' category in older age groups who have never been adopted before," she told the house.

Ms Irani said there are children who are older and are made available to our NRI diaspora and OCI card holders.

A Gurugram-based couple was booked for sexually exploiting two minor children they had adopted through a Kolkata-based organisation. The couple exploited the kids for nearly three months before sending them back to the adoption centre.

By India Today Web Desk: Two kids were sexually exploited by a couple in Gurugram who had adopted them from a Kolkata-based organisation. They exploited two minor siblings for over nearly three months before sending them back, said the police.

The incident came to the fore when the kids were sent for a medical examination. On November 29, a complaint was lodged in the matter by Deepak Sinha on behalf of the Indian Society for Rehabilitation at Rabindra Sarobar police station in Kolkata.

ADOPTED KIDS SEXUALLY EXPLOITED

The police booked Nitin Sharma and his wife, residents of Sector 10, Gurugram, who had adopted a 2-year-old girl and her 4-year-old brother from Kolkata on March 30.

Landgericht Karlsruhe

Pforzheimer Stadträtin Oana Krichbaum klagt wegen übler Nachrede

Eine 50-jährige Frau bezichtigt die Pforzheimer Stadträtin Oana Krichbaum des illegalen Kinderhandels und bombardiert sie mit Nachrichten.

Gunther und Oana Krichbaum als Delegierte beim Bundesparteitag der CDU in Hannover

Sollen mit Nachrichten konfrontiert werden: Gunther und Oana Krichbaum wehren sich gegen den „Terror“. Foto: Oana Krichbaum

A 50-year-old woman accuses Pforzheim City Councilor Oana Krichbaum of illegal child trafficking and bombards her with messages.

Prominence does not protect against slander. Oana Krichbaum (CDU) has had this experience for years. The Pforzheim city councilwoman is bombarded daily with e-mails, Facebook postings and letters from a 50-year-old from the Enzkreis district in which she accuses the wife of Bundestag member Gunther Krichbaum (CDU) of illegal child trafficking. Therefore, since November, the allegation of defamation has been heard in the outer chamber of the Karlsruhe Regional Court.

At first she defended herself with a civil lawsuit against the "terror", as she puts it, reported Oana Krichbaum as a witness. The woman will not be dissuaded from her actions by a judgment passed against her in 2019. Not even because of the fines, which increase up to 10,000 euros, for violating the conditions imposed in the civil proceedings.

While driving home from the court hearing in Karlsruhe, the accused continued the Facebook terror until today. She therefore saw no other way out than to defend herself now with a procedure before a criminal court.

Oana Krichbaum's husband also receives countless e-mails

The Bombay High Court recently granted guardianship of a minor to her biological parents after she was deemed to be an illegitimate child as a result of being born out of marriage [Sudeep Suhas Kulkarni and Anr. vs Abbas Bahadur Dhanani].

The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Bill, providing for the adoption of both boys and girls, was approved by the Lok Sabha on Friday.

Mr N. C. Chatterjee (Hindu Mahasabha) called the Bill a communal one. “ It is wrong for a secular State to single out Hindus alone for this kind of legislation.” he said.

Adoption of girls was something unheard of in Hindu society from the days of the Vedas. The Bill defied the directive principles of the Constitution.

The chapter on maintenance was capable of more than one interpretation. Lawyers had already pointed out that some of the provisions could not be enforced.

Mrs Sushama Sen (Cong.-Bihar) did not agree with Mr Chatterjee that the Bill violated the Constitution On the contrary, she said, it sought to implement the provision conferring equal right to men and women. She congratulated the Minister on giving Hindu women their rightful place in society.

According to police, a ‘prospective adoptive’ couple from Gurgaon adopted two minor siblings, a boy (4) and a girl (2), from an orphanage in Kolkata in March 2022.

The couple wrote to the Central government a few days ago, alleging that two girls had confided in counsellors that they had been abused along with other children in the shelter home.

The Madhya Pradesh Police are investigating an allegation by a California-based couple that two of the four children it adopted from a centre in Rewa were subjected to sexual abuse.

The couple had adopted four children, including three girls, through the Central Adoption Resources Authority (CARA) from a shelter home run by an NGO in Rewa in March. The couple wrote to the Central government a few days ago, alleging that two girls had confided in counsellors that they had been abused along with other children in the shelter home.

The adoption centre was shut down on Tuesday and the administration has shifted all the inmates to another shelter home in Satna. The children were sent to the shelter home in 2017 after their father died in a road accident and the mother after a tuberculosis infection.

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A Hindu couple entered into an agreement with a Muslim Couple that they will give their child to the Muslim couple at birth. The Hindu couple claimed that they were financially unable to raise the child.

The Karnataka High Court recently dismissed a petition filed by a Muslim Couple against dismissal of their plea under Sections 7 to 10 and 25 of the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 to appoint them as adoptive parents of a Hindu child.

The bench of Justice B Veerappa and Justice K. S. Hemalekha noted that the Muslim Couple and the biological parents of the child had entered into an agreement in respect of child's adoption even before the child was born.

Court said, "It is shocking that an agreement is entered into between the parties in respect of an unborn child".

Diphu (Assam), Dec 13 (PTI) Abandoned at birth by her biological parents, a two-year-old child from a remote area in Assam’s Karbi Anglong district has found home in distant Spain with a professor from the European country formally adopting her on Tuesday.

Maria Emngal Rams arrived at Dhansiri town of this hill district early on Tuesday morning and took custody of the minor after spending more than two months for paperwork and other formalities.

“The adoption process was done through CARA and after approving and verifying all documents, we handed the child to her new mother at a function here,” Sanju Bora, founder member of ‘Mission Concern’, an adoption agency where the child was staying, said.

The Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) is a statutory body of the union ministry of women and child development which functions as the nodal body to monitor and regulate in-country and inter-country adoptions.

The adoption agency official said the child was brought to Mission Concern two years ago in a serious condition. She was abandoned by the roadside and ants had bitten through her flesh severely.