Whether children from a second marriage would have a share in ancestral property? The Supreme Court issued notice in a special leave petition which raised this issue.

In this case, the petitioner had approached the Apex Court challenging a High Court observation that the children should not inherit a share in the property of their grandmother since they were born out of 'the second wife'.

While issuing notice, the bench comprising Justices Sanjay Kishan Kaul and Hrishikesh Roy also noticed that a larger question as to whether in the ancestral property, the said children from a second marriage would have a share is pending consideration in Ravanasiddappa & Anr. vs.Mallikarjun & Ors, (2011) 11 SCC 1. The matter be listed after the judgement in the aforementioned case is pronounced, the court said.

Section 16 of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955, provides that any child of a marriage which is null and void under section 11, who would have been legitimate if the marriage had been valid, shall be legitimate. However, Section 16(3) provides that it shall not be construed as conferring upon any child of a marriage which is null and void or which is annulled by a decree of nullity under section 12, any rights in or to the property of any person, other than the parents, in any case where, but for the passing of this Act, such child would have been incapable of possessing or acquiring any such rights by reason of his not being the legitimate child of his parents.

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MUMBAI: Abandoned twice by his parents, a baby boy who had become

the cynosure of all at Juhu police station now has cops fielding inquiries

about his adoption.

Seven-month-old Yash (name changed) was born at a public hospital in

December 2020. His mother was referred there from another nursing

Ahmedabad: Chandkheda police investigating a case of abduction bid of an 11-month-old baby and possible human trafficking

have started tracking Prashant Kamble, a resident of Pune, as one of the primary accused of the case. Bindu Sharma, the nanny

who was apprehended for the offence, was probed on Friday where she put all the blame on Prashant and claimed that she

was innocent.

“She maintained she did not know the scheme by Prashant and sending her picture with the baby was a mistake. We are yet to

A mum forced to give up her son ten days after giving birth at the age of 14 has been reunited with him 52 years later.

Lynne Oakes’s childhood was shattered when she fell pregnant to an older man.

And was sent away to a mother and baby home because “my parents just couldn’t handle it”

After having her son in 1968 she spent a precious few days with him before he was “snatched from her arms” for adoption.

Lynne, 68, who was the youngest mum in the home, recalled the terrible grief of losing her child after taking to motherhood immediately.

AHMEDABAD: Chandkheda police investigating a case of abduction bid of an 11-month-old baby and possible human trafficking have started tracking

Prashant Kamble, a resident of Pune, as one of the primary accused of the case. Bindu Sharma, the nanny who was apprehended for the offence,

was probed on Friday where she put all the blame on Prashant and claimed that she was innocent.

“She maintained she did not know the scheme by Prashant and sending her picture with the baby was a mistake. We are yet to ascertain whether

she was part of any previous incidents,” said an investigator. “We have contacted Maharashtra Police for their assistance in tracking and

A medical tech company in east China is under investigation on suspicion that it's a front for an illegal baby-trafficking business, the city of Weifang's Public Security Bureau said.

Local police arrested the company's head on Monday after anti-trafficking advocate Shangguan Zhengyi conducted a sting operation with the help of Xia Ruchu from The Paper, a Shanghai news outlet.

The suspect, a woman in her 40s identified as Sister Zhu, is accused of connecting clients who wanted to be parents with pregnant Chinese women looking to sell off their newborns, Xia reported.

A newborn may be sold for as much as $20,000 in the area, said Xia, who helped Shangguan with his investigation. Zhu served as the middleman for these transactions and said she was consulted by 20 to 30 clients a year, The Paper said.

She also offered to help buyers arrange birth certificates for the babies and had a system of swapping the names of her pregnant customers to muddle documentation of the birth, the report said. The goal was to ensure the baby's biological parents couldn't find and reclaim their child if they ever changed their minds.

AHMEDABAD: Had they been even 24 hours late in finding out that their

nanny was a fraud, a family from Chandkheda would have lost their infant

to an interstate child trafficking ring. The nursemaid they had employed

this May had plotted to kidnap and sell the 11-month-old baby girl to a

couple in Pune.

MYSURU: District cops have uncovered an illegal adoption racket by cracking three cases in less than two months.

A 60-year-old woman and her 31-year-old daughter were arrested for trafficking two newborns and selling the infants to childless couples in Hassan and Kollegal, while another case is being investigated in HD Kote. The mother-daughter duo had collected Rs 7.5 lakh from the couples adopting unlawfully.

Superintendent of police R Chethan on Wednesday said he suspected there could be more cases of illegal adoptions. “As of now two cases have been unearthed from the mother and daughter. Teams have been formed to dig deep into the illegal racket,” he said.

As of now, cops have not found any similarities in the two cases in Nanjangud. Srimathi aka Saraswathi and her daughter Lakshmi allegedly contacted financially poor new mothers and childless couples, and worked as mediators between them to make money. We suspect the involvement of a staff of a private hospital in Mysuru where both the babies were delivered, the SP added.

Srimathi has allegedly collected Rs 4 lakh from a Hassan couple to give them a baby boy while Rs 3.5 lakh was collected from Kollegal couple for a baby girl. The money has been seized from Srimathi. Mothers may not have been aware of money transactions by Srimathi, the SP stated. Srimathi, a resident of Nanjangud, rents autos and does odd jobs for a living, police said.

The Government has published a new National Adoption Strategy which, it says, "is set to improve adoption services in England by putting in place better recruitment across the country and removing any unnecessary delays, through more training for front line staff, improving approval process and funding for targeted recruitment campaigns".

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NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday said that DNA tests cannot

be ordered to establish the legitimacy of a child born during the

subsistence of a marriage if there is no primary evidence of adultery.

A bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Dinesh Maheshwari set aside the

orders of a lower court and Bombay high court which had allowed a plea