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HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH : JABALPUR

SB : HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE J.K. MAHESHWARI

Civil Revision No.258/2017

The child has been sent to the state-run orphanage in Rampur, the only such facility in western UP

The child has been sent to the state-run orphanage in Rampur, the only such facility in western UP

RAMPUR: After seeing pictures of an adorable six-month-old abandoned baby girl, who was found in a garbage bin on Moradabad-Agra highway on Friday morning, hundreds of couples on Saturday approached police and the child welfare committee (CWC) with requests for adoption. Meanwhile, the local authorities have sent the baby to an orphanage and have said that they will first try to locate her biological parents. The abandoned child's pictures were published in most newspapers and her story was widely circulated on social media.

On Saturday morning, scores of couples queued up outside the office of child welfare committee in Moradabad. These included residents of Bhikanpur-Kulwada village who had spotted and rescued the baby a day earlier.

"The woman who first spotted the child and fetched milk for her has been missing her terribly. She even went to the local police station to check on the baby girl. We all are hoping and praying that her parents are found and she goes back home," said Mehraj Hussain, a resident of Bhikanpur-Kulwada village

The Two Families Appear Before Authorities Probing The Doctor's Child Dealings, While The Adopted Children Are Kept In A Kolhapur-Based Shelter

Dr Arun Patil

Dr Arun Patil

Three days after Arun Bhupal Patil, a homeopathy doctor and his wife Ujjwala were arrested by the Kolhapur police for allegedly selling newborns born at the hospital Patil worked at, authorities have zeroed down on two families to that illegally adopted the children. They are from Mumbai and Nagpur.

The children, who were bought from their mothers for Rs 2 lakh, were sold for anywhere between Rs 8 lakh to Rs 10 lakh, depending on their gender, probe has revealed. One of the children, born to a widow, was given to a Mumbai-based doctor, while the other child, sent to Nagpur, was delivered by a 16-year-old girl.

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday declared a minor girl ‘free for adoption’, clearing the decks for a city-based couple to adopt the child. This comes after the couple was stuck in procedural glitches post the modifications in the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act.

A division bench of Justice Naresh Patil and Justice Nitin Sambre said, “We declare this two-and-a-half-year-old girl child free for adoption. She can now be adopted by foster parents, after following the due procedure of law, by making a proper plea in a competent court. We hope the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) cooperates with the foster parents and grant a no objection certificate to them.” Judges were hearing a writ petition moved by an Andheri-based NGO Shantighar Social Society, urging the court to declare the girl free for adoption.

According to the NGO, her biological mother had been to their shelter home when she was pregnant by six months. The mother wanted to abort her pregnancy, however, post to the NGO’s counselling, she decided to give birth to the child and hand over it for adoption. But post her delivery, she did not fill in the requisite form and since then has been untraceable. This acted as a hurdle for the couple in adopting the child as she was not declared free for adoption by her biological mother, which in turn compelled the NGO to move the HC.

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Nathalie Deffond with Chaitanya, whom she she adopted from the Child Welfare Council in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday

Nathalie Deffond with Chaitanya, whom she she adopted from the Child Welfare Council in Thiruvananthapuram on Wednesday

doctor and his wife, who were detained on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in the sale of newborn babies, were arrested by the Shivajinagar (Ichalkaranji) police on Wednesday.

A local court remanded the accused, Arun Bhupal Patil and Ujwalla, to seven days in police custody.

Patil ran a general surgical and maternity hospital at Jawaharlal Nagar in Ichalkaranji. A team from the Central Adoption Resources Authority (CARA) and the district women and child welfare committee raided the hospital on Tuesday night and handed over the couple to the police.

Deputy superintendent of police Vinayak Narale said Patil has confessed to having sold two newborn babies for Rs 2 lakh each in the last three months.

Police have also booked a couple from Chhattisgarh who purchased one of the newborns from Patil and his wife. The other baby was sold to a couple from Mumbai. Narale said, "We are gathering information about the couples and their exact addresses." Police are examining several documents seized from Patil's hospital. "We are also questioning the staff working at the hospital," Narale said.

ROORKEE: Moved by the plight of a mentally unsound destitute woman, who was raped by an unknown person and who gave birth to a baby girl on Tuesday, some local residents have come forward to adopt the baby. "The woman and her newborn baby girl was brought to hospital around 8.30 am. "We have to discharge the mother and the child in two or three days from hospital. Since the umbilical cord was still attached to the newborn baby, people called an 108 ambulance to take her to the town's civil hospital. But since the woman's mental health is not normal and she shows volatile mood swings, we have approached the mental hospital for her treatment.

ROORKEE: Moved by the plight of a mentally unsound destitute woman, who was raped by an unknown person and who gave birth to a baby girl on Tuesday, some local residents have come forward to adopt the baby.

Doctors at the civil hospital, where the woman and her child are admitted, said the law does not permit them to hand over the child to others for adoption without following legal procedures, which take time.

Some locals said that they had heard that about two years ago, the woman had given birth to a baby boy but the mother threw the baby into a nearby canal.Officials at the hospital said that three people have approached them so far for adopting the child.

"We have to discharge the mother and the child in two or three days from hospital.

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New report on the Sale of Children and Illegal Adoption published by ECPAT, DCI and Terre des Hommes

Discover the new co-published report, written by Nigel Cantwell (founder of DCI and international consultant on child protection) covering the study made by DCI in the area of sale of children and illegal adoption.

Illicit practices in relation to the adoption of children have been a serious concern for many decades, particularly – though not solely – with regard to those involving the transfer of children abroad (intercountry adoption). The 1980s saw a phenomenal increase in allegations of malpractice and the realisation that the legal and human rights framework for intercountry adoption was wholly inadequate to prevent children being “legally adopted” as a result of illegalities at various stages in the adoption process. These concerns came to inspire in particular the emphasis, in international standards, on protecting the rights of children for whom intercountry adoption might be envisaged or is already under way.

In 2016, the current UN Special Rapporteur on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography, Maud de Boer Buquicchio, commissioned a research paper on “illegal adoptions”, both domestic and intercountry, to inform the thematic report on this subject that she presented to the 34th session of the Human Rights Council in March 2017.

The present publication is an adapted version of that research paper. Its main focus is on illegal intercountry adoptions. It seeks to pinpoint in particular the systemic factors that create the conditions in which illegal adoptions can thrive and to propose effective responses on the part of all actors, with special attention topreventive approaches.