Recently the Bombay high court reunited a 14-year-old Hindu girl with the four-member Muslim family that brought her up ever since her biological mother abandoned her.

Justice Gautam Patel of Bombay high court ignored the biological mother’s plea for her custody primarily on the ground that the woman was involved in some immoral activity.

The girl was handed over the foster family on July 24.

The Muslim family filed a Petition in the high court, seeking guardianship of the girl. They contended that she had been living with them and has been taken care of as a family member since her biological mother abandoned her and moved to Kanpur.

The Petitioner Family complained that the biological mother returned to Mumbai and demanded the girl’s custody. They said the biological mother and one of her male friends had forcibly taken away the girl. The girl was brought back only after the petitioners approached the Child Welfare Committee.

Hyderabad: The Golconda Police on Monday rescued 36 children, including 30 boys and six girls, from an unregistered orphanage in Rajendranagar, and handed them over to the Women and Child Welfare department.

According to the police, the children were rescued from Dove Orphan Children Home at Gandhamguda. “They were in the age group of six to eight years. The owners of home, Esther Rani and Ramesh, used to force the children to beg at public places such as Golconda Fort in the name of raising funds,” police said.

A case was booked against them, after which they were arrested and produced in court. They were remanded in judicial custody.

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The highest number of children available for adoption is from Maharashtra at 376 followed by Odisha at 299, according to an RTI reply.

On a query on the number of children available for adoption in 2017-18, it was informed that the figure is 1,991 including 1,322 girls.

Rakesh Srivastava, secretary in the Ministry of Women and ..

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Nikhil Bhardwaj

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 4

In a major development in the case of adoption of an 11-year-old girl by a couple and her rape by her adoptive father, the police have found that the girl was handed over to the accused couple without following any legal procedure by either party.

The girl’s real mother as well as the middlemen who facilitated her adoption may face action for illegally handing over the girl to strangers.

Nikhil Bhardwaj

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 4

In a major development in the case of adoption of an 11-year-old girl by a couple and her rape by her adoptive father, the police have found that the girl was handed over to the accused couple without following any legal procedure by either party.

The girl’s real mother as well as the middlemen who facilitated her adoption may face action for illegally handing over the girl to strangers.

Ludhiana, August 02, 2018: As per the orders of Punjab government, a new Child Welfare Committee has been constituted for District Ludhiana under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015. Mr Jatinder Pal Singh PCS (retired) has been appointed chairman of the committee while Tarsem Bahia, Sanjay Maheshwari, Baldev Singh and Raminder Kaur have been appointed as members.The new committee joined today and started the work with its first meeting on the same day.The chairman addressed the staff and the members and advised to work for the welfare of children in Ludhiana.

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A father who murdered his baby just weeks after adopting her may have slipped under the radar as he was seen as a "positive parent", a review has found.

Elsie Scully-Hicks died in May 2016 when she was 18 months old.

She was subjected to a catalogue of injuries by killer Matthew Scully-Hicks in the eight months he had care of her.

A child practice review said these were never considered anything other than "childhood accidents".

Cardiff and Vale's Regional Safeguarding Children Board agreed that while Elsie's death could not have been predicted it could potentially have been prevented.

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District Court of North Holland

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Court of North Holland

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27-06-2018

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Court of North Holland

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