Kaushal and Bijal Patel with their adopted daughter Revanshi

A 15-month-old girl, who was abandoned by her biological parents when she was just 7 days old, got a new lease of life when a non-resident Gujarati childless couple adopted her on Saturday. The baby named Aarvi by Shishu Gruh in Paldi where she was abandoned, will soon fly with her adopted parents to New Jersey in the US. She begins her new life as Revanshi. A gala adoption function was organised at AMA where Anand native Kaushal Patel and Bijal Patel became proud parents of the baby girl.

Kaushal, 36, settled in the US 10 years ago and married Bijal, 30, also from Borsad in Anand district seven years ago. But when the couple could not have their own baby, they decided to adopt a baby girl from Gujarat. "We decided to adopt a girl in 2015 after my wife had a miscarriage and began the adoption process. Our wait ended when we saw Aarvi at the Shishu Gruh in Paldi. We are happy to have adopted her and it is a memorable day in our life," said Kaushal, who owns a store in New Jersey. "We decided to adopt the girl as my wife an dI both had dreamt of having a baby girl and nurturing her well. We gave her a new name Revanshi," Patel said, adding, "My parents and Bijal's parents are happy with the decision."

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IN THE COURT OF SHRI GIRISH KATHPALIA,

DISTRICT & SESSIONS JUDGE

SOUTH EAST : SAKET COURT, NEW DELHI.

G.P. NO. 19/2017

SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES OF INDIA,

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 13

A 75-year-old widow has successfully defended her husband’s property from a woman claiming to be their adopted daughter.

Raj Shahi had earlier won a civil suit to be the only legal heir to the property in her husband’s name after he died. However, the “adopted daughter” filed an appeal against the order, which she has once again lost as she failed to prove that she was legally adopted.

Anupam Puri, aka Rimpi, aka Navdeep, a 38-year-old Ropar resident, is said to be the granddaughter of a Patiala-based man, Amar Nath Sharma. Sharma was a friend of the deceased, Diwan Chand Shahi, who had retired as a lecturer from Government College, Sector 11. Puri had started living with the Shahi family in Chandigarh in their Sector 38 residence for better education facilities.

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 13

The girl child, born to the 10-year-old rape victim, can be adopted from Diwali as she will be completing two months on October 18.

Harjinder Kaur, Chairperson of the Chandigarh Commission for Protection for Child Rights (CCPCR), said,“The child will be available for adoption after October 18. Her details will be uploaded on the website of the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA).” Meanwhile, the Social Welfare Department has hired four women attendants to look after her at the children’s home in Sector 15.

As per the online process, details of children are sent to select parents according to their demands. They are given 48 hours to confirm. After receiving confirmation, the case goes to the district court through a specialised adoption agency. Mahavir Singh, Member Secretary, State Legal Service Authority (SLSA), said the court examines the social profile of couples wishing to adopt a child. Further, documents are verified to negate any possibility of any wheeling and dealing between the adoption agency and the couple wishing to adopt a child. The adoption process at the court will take four months.

HIGHLIGHTS

FBI is still searching for the girl who went missing after her father Wesley Mathews, an Ernakulam native, asked her to stand outside their residence after midnight as punishment.

On Saturday night, Wesley was arrested by Richard son police and charged with abandoning or endangering a child.

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PATNA: Sherin Mathews, the three-year-old Texas girl who went missing after being made to stand outside for not finishing her milk on Saturday , is none other than Saraswati of Bihar. She was adopted from an NGO named Mother Teresa Anath Seva Sansthan in Nalanda on June 23 last year by an American couple.

TERRE DES HOMMES RESPONDS TO ADOPTION STORY IN TROUW

14/10/2017

In response to the article today in the Dutch national newspaper Trouw about the possible involvement of Terre des Hommes in illegal adoptions from Bangladesh in the seventies, Terre des Hommes wants to emphasise its appreciation for ex Terre des Hommes employees making their voices heard. Terre des Hommes is looking into the matter and is in contact with the adoptees.

Diffuse situation

Terre des Hommes appreciates that former employees as Elly and Mart van den Berg step forward to provide a better understanding of what happened concerning intercountry adoptions from Bangladesh forty years ago. Currently Terre des Hommes searches for all relevant information within the organisation that can provide clarification about the diffuse period back then.

In response to the article in Trouw today about the possible involvement of Terre des Hommes in abuses with adoptions from Bangladesh in the 1970s, Terre des Hommes would like to emphasize that it appreciates that former employees of Terre des Hommes make their voices heard. Terre des Hommes is investigating the case and is in contact with the adoptees.

Diffuse situation

Terre des Hommes appreciates that former employees such as Elly and Mart van den Berg are stepping forward to provide better insight into what happened 40 years ago with regard to intercountry adoptions from Bangladesh. At the moment, Terre des Hommes is looking indoors for all relevant information that can clarify the diffuse period back then.

Reception in your own country

The focus of Terre des Hommes has always been to care for orphans or children who cannot be brought up within their own family in their native country and to help build their future.

Adopted children who have little to no information about their biological family are increasingly turning to commercial DNA databases to track down blood relatives. This is how Tanne Beudeker (46), adopted from South Korea, found her half-brother in the United States a few months ago.

Tanne came to the Netherlands from South Korea in 1972, when she was almost a year old. She has no memories of her country of birth. None. The only thing she has of her biological parents are a few sheets of paper with some information. The name and date of birth of her mother, the name and year of birth of her father. But the information about her father has now been proven to be incorrect. “I have been looking for a certain 'sergeant David Pollman' for 25 years. But the name of the man who now probably turns out to be my father, does not resemble that in the slightest: Phillip Neil or Neil Phillip.”

Tanne grew up in Sleen in Drenthe, among goats, sheep, cats, chickens and ponies. She had a happy childhood there. When her adoptive parents divorced when she was about nineteen, she went looking for her biological father for the first time. “Why my father in particular? It was a feeling. In terms of information, it would have been better to go for my mother, because I knew more about her. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that my adoptive mother was the one who left my father during the divorce. That I thought subconsciously: those mothers, they just leave you. Somehow I had more of a connection with my father than with my mother at that time.”

The Walker family from Okotoks is now a family of five following the adoption of a two-year-old girl from India but delays in their dealings with Canadian Immigration postponed her arrival on Canadian soil and extended the family’s time in Asia.

The family had been looking to adopt for nearly three years and, in the summer of 2016, they fell for a little girl from Bhopal, India.

“We found out about Opal in August of last year and have been doing the paper chase for her until now,” said Georgina Walker from a hotel room in New Delhi, India. “We applied for citizenship in January.”

Walker says Indian officials did not object to the adoption application but the family’s dealings with Canadian Immigration were frustrating from the get-go. After seeking an update from Canadian Immigration on Opal’s citizenship application, officials told the family there had been an error.

“They said ‘Yeah, sorry. We made a mistake. We need to send it to Delhi,” said Walker. “We lost almost a month because they had mixed it up.”

Legal adoption can only be done through Specialised Adoption agencies (SAAs) that are recognised by state governments.

In the Wadala case, the buyers of the three newborns were a Worli doctor, a Bengaluru software engineer and a Thane gynaecologist-paediatrician couple.

In the Wadala case, the buyers of the three newborns were a Worli doctor, a Bengaluru software engineer and a Thane gynaecologist-paediatrician couple.

Mumbai: The legal procedures associated with adoption of children are elaborate, with an aim to ensuring the safety of the child and ascertaining the background of potential parents.

With the Wadala Truck Terminus police’s recent bust of a baby-selling racket, wherein the arrested traffickers sold newborn babies to childless couples for Rs 4 to Rs 4.5 lakh each, parents and experts have said child traffickers exploit the fact that it takes time.