Experts want tough laws on lucrative adoption business

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 23 2018

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Adoption. Foreign adoptions attract as much as Sh700,000 per child as legal fees for lawyers. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP

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New Delhi: A 40-year-old woman identified as Kavita was arrested on Sunday from Delhi for allegedly running children selling racket. The woman apparently sold babies to childless couples at price ranging from Rs 2 Lakh to Rs 5 Lakh.

As of now, a court has sent the woman to a police remand. After the arrest, two babies were also recovered from her custody.

The Delhi police got to know about the racket when they met one of the accused last month. The accused posed as a childless couple. After the arrest was made, four children were also rescued from him subsequently.

One of the four children died at the hospital later. It was later revealed that the baby belonged to a minor girl who had become pregnant after being allegedly raped in outer Delhi, police said. More arrests were made but Kavita was on the run. She was finally arrested after she came to her house in south Delhi, they said.

It must be noted that minister of Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi in July ordered all the states to inspect the child care homes run by the Missionaries of Charity, all over the country, in view of the recent child-selling scandal reported from a Mother Teresa institution in Jharkhand’s Ranchi. “Taking cognisance of the recent cases of illegal adoptions carried out by Missionaries of Charity in Jharkhand, Maneka Gandhi has instructed the states to get childcare homes run by Missionaries of Charity all over the country inspected immediately,” the ministry said in the statement.

Individuals in a live-in relationship will now be able to adopt children from and within India after India’s Nodal Adoption Agency CARA decided to withdraw a circular issued earlier this year disallowing them from doing so.

Child Adoption Regulatory Authority (CARA), in a circular issued on May 31, barred the applicants in a live-in relationship from adopting a child on the ground that “Authority would like children to be placed only with a stable family and individuals in a live-in relationship cannot be considered as stable family.”

Women and Child Development Ministry, R.K. Shrivastava told The Hindu that,“We have decided to withdraw circular and applications from prospective adoptive parents will be examined on a case-by-case basis”.

Decision was taken at last meeting of Steering Committee of CARA, chaired by Mr. Shrivastava, in August, and will benefit both domestic and international applicants.

Eligibility criteria under Adoption Regulations, 2017, permit single women to adopt a child of any gender, while single men can adopt only boys.

Itanagar, Sept 20: Chairman, Advisory Committee of Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA) and Member NCPCR, Ramachandra Reddy and members (Advisory Committee) Nsha Jha and Dr G Sreenuis are on a three-day visit to Arunachal Pradesh for promoting adoption in the state.

During their tour that started on Tuesday, the team visited the Specialized Adoption Agency (SAA) and Children Home run by Oju Welfare Association (OWA), an official release informed here on Thursday.

The visiting team was accompanied by T P Loyi, Director Women and Child Development and Dani Yami, Deputy Director (ICDS), Yupia, Lenzing Tagi, CDPO (HQs) and staff of District Child Protection Unit, Yupia.

Besides interacting with the children of the Child Care Institutions (CCI), the Central team also visited the infants of SAA and expressed satisfaction over the facilities being provided.

They praised Ratan Anya, chairperson OWA for her efforts and assured guidance and all possible support to strengthen the SAA in the State. Thereafter, the team paid visit to the CCI run by Missionaries of Charity and inspected its functioning, and also interacted with the children. In an interactive session was held with District Child Protection Officer, staff of District Child Protection Unit, NGOs running CCIs and CWC members for promoting adoption as per provisions of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015. The team also called on Women and Child Development Minister Nabam Rebia and Commissioner WCD.

Individuals in a live-in relationship will once again be able to adopt children from and within India after the country’s nodal adoption agency decided to withdraw a circular issued earlier this year disallowing them from doing so.

The Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), in a circular issued on May 31, barred applicants in a live-in relationship from adopting a child on the ground that “the Authority would like the children to be placed only with a stable family and individuals in a live-in relationship cannot be considered as stable family.”

“We have decided to withdraw the circular and applications from prospective adoptive parents will be examined on a case-by-case basis,” Secretary, Women and Child Development Ministry, R.K. Shrivastava told The Hindu on Thursday.

The decision was taken at the last meeting of the steering committee of CARA, chaired by Mr. Shrivastava, in August, and will benefit both domestic and international applicants.

The eligibility criteria under Adoption Regulations, 2017, permit single women to adopt a child of any gender, while single men can adopt only boys. When a married couple seeks to adopt a child, it needs to give its consent for adoption and should be stable marriage for at least two years. Applicants have to be physically, mentally and financially stable to raise a child.

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A case had been registered based on the complaint filed by the family members of one of the girls, and an investigation has started.

Two girls aged, 11 and 12 years, were allegedly raped by two persons, one of them a minor. According to police one of the girls passed away late on Wednesday night. According to Maharashtra police, the incident took place on two occasions between September 11 and 18.

One of the perpetrators, a 22-year-old has been arrested. The other, a 17-year-old, has been detained, a senior police officer said. He added that a case had been registered based on the complaint filed by the family members of one of the girls, and an investigation has started.

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In a case of human trafficking, Mandsaur police have arrested five persons for selling children from Bihar under the garb of adoption through legal means.

The main accused, Kaveri Bai is absconding, police said on Thursday.

Senior police official Rakesh Mohan Shukla said they had received information that adoption papers were being prepared for two girls in the Mandsaur court, but in reality they were being sold for Rs 30,000 each.

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