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.

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.

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.

Hindu and Christian personal law treat adopted child on a par with natural-born ones

Under Hindu law, an adopted son or daughter is treated exactly the same as a natural-born child

The High Court of Karnataka has ruled that adopted children have the same rights as biological children and can’t be discriminated against when they apply for their deceased parent’s job on compassionate grounds. The court, in the case of Girish, s/o Vinayan K Muttatti Vs State of Karnataka & others, said that the state government must give a compassionate appointment to the adopted son.

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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?

poster

Rona

Dear Rona,

Synopsis

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".

H.E Mr. Simon Mordue, Chief Foreign Policy Advisor to the President of the European Union Council, met with H.E Mr. Abdulrahman bin Mohammed Al-Khulaifi, Ambassador of the State of Qatar to the Kingdom of Belgium and Head of Mission of the State of Qatar to the European Union and NATO.

During the meeting, they reviewed the cooperation relations between the State of Qatar and the European Union, developments in the Middle East and the Iranian nuclear file.

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When I told my sister Livia, a teacher in Craiova, that I was coming home at the beginning of March, she replied that I had chosen the most unfortunate moment possible. "We have notice to vacate the cellars in the block for shelter, in case of attack. Stay there because you're fine!", she closed the conversation. She thought I was listening to her.

Three days later, we land at the airport in Otopeni, at midnight. Ioana, a neighbor, was waiting for me. "Hey, you chose when to come!", he said to me instead of "You're welcome", on the way to the parking lot.

Then, in the morning , Ioana 's mother, who lives upstairs in my Victorian house on Pia ?a Roman? , called me to the window. A gesture that dates from the time when I lived there more than twenty years ago , from the time when I was a special reporter at the National newspaper and then, at Antena 1 , for the "Prezentul Simplu" show. Usually, my upstairs neighbor made a comment about a broadcast report, or about what else she had read written by me. Now, in a whisper , he said to me, "Hey, Dana, don't you know what's going on here?"

And I knew. "Well that's why I came. Let me lend a helping hand and document what is happening. I got angry when some colleagues from the press here told me that they don't think the war is real, that the images broadcast by television are not from the scene . That they are rigged. I want to get involved.”

A few hours later, I set up with Ioana at the Help Center for Refugees at the North Station. "Just see how crowded it is," said Ioana, juggling among the cars as I closed my eyes in fear . We signed up for volunteers, they gave us a yellow jacket, and five minutes later, they sent us on our first mission. "A train with refugees is coming . Go to the platform and identify the refugees, help them with their luggage, and bringthey are here, at the Center", someone from the guard instructed us. We looked at each other and took her to the platform. "But aren't they training us?" asked Ioana, in her somewhat lazy but resonant voice. "I could see," I told him. "What would be so hard?" I answered, not believing what I was saying either.

In an interview granted to cotidianul.ro , Dana Maria Dezotell recounts her journey in the "Promised Land", which began with a tragedy and continued with remarkable performances in a field where few succeed.

Reporter: Let's start with your arrival in this country. 12 years ago, you married an American citizen, a few months later you became pregnant with your first child, but fate was cruel to your new family after your husband lost his life in a tragic car accident . She didn't even get to see her son and you were left alone, two months pregnant, without money, without a stable home and without a secure job. How did you manage to get over this terrible moment in your life?

Dana Maria Dezotell:That's right, on March 21, 2001, I got married in Romania to Lyman, my husband. It was a quick marriage, after a year or so of mutual groping. I moved to the state of Vermont where he lived. As you rightly said, eight months after their marriage, he died in a car accident on his way to work at IBM. Three people died in that accident, all colleagues. They were commuting together on that sad day of November 29, 2001. While Lyman was sleeping in the back seat, he was hit by an oncoming car. The next day I would have had my first medical check-up, to find out if I was pregnant. I knew I was, but I had to get under the care of a doctor. In September 2001 I had started my first job in America, teaching assistant at a high school where I was living at the time. God helped me survive hunger and the lack of my family. Looking back, I think I would have chosen the same, to stay and fight for my child. I wanted him to know why he didn't have a father. This tragedy lasted about 12 years, until I found out why my husband died.

What came after? How did you face, as a widow with a newborn child, this downright desperate situation? I think that even the most powerful man in the world would have been devastated after such a tragedy, especially since you were in a foreign country and could not rely on the support of your family, located in Romania?

In short, the ambition not to be beaten. The details are in the book I'm writing now.