In her quest to trace her long lost biological mother, a German national has been travelling across Karnataka for a decade.

RAICHUR: In her quest to trace her long lost biological mother, a German national has been travelling across Karnataka for a decade. The fact that her foster parents adopted her illegally in 1981 has made her search difficult, as some official records have reportedly vanished, affecting the lady’s efforts to find out where she had been taken from, by her adoptive parents.

Mariya Chaya Schupp, a teacher by profession, was adopted when she was a four-year-old from a shelter called Nirmala Social Welfare (NSW) in Ullal in Mangaluru. Mariya learnt this from her foster mother Ingrid Schupp. “My foster mother, Ingrid, told me that I was an abandoned street kid from India. This led me to my search.”

Mariya, who has been searching for her mother for a decade, has now landed at Raichur based on information that her mother Girija Ganiga moved to Raichur from Mangaluru. “In the initial days, when I began the search, I was not even aware of her name. However, in Ullal, after I started searching, some neighbours revealed that her name is Girija Ganiga and she has relocated, probably to Raichur,” Mariya said. Now she has contacted the media and activists in Raichur seeking their help to find Girija.

Mariya squarely alleged that her adoption was illegal. Her foster mother adopted her through an adoption agency named Pro-Infant Adoption. However, this agency is currently facing a ban in Germany, according to her. The shelter, which Ingrid contacted through the agency flouted certain norms, Mariya alleged.

Deoria Police, which earlier probed the case, filed a chargesheet against Girija and Kanchan. In the second FIR, seven others were charge-sheeted, said Arun Kumar Maurya, SHO, City Kotwali.

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has taken over the probe into alleged sexual harassment and illegal detention of girls at a shelter home in Deoria.

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The shelter home was run by an NGO, Maa Vindhyavash Prashikshina Avam Samaj Seva Sansthan. The CBI Thursday lodged FIRs against its director Girija Tripathi and her daughter and superintendent of the shelter, Kanchan Lata Tripathi, under charges of sexual harassment, human trafficking, sexual assault, adoption without following prescribed procedures, wrongful confinement and assault or criminal force to deter public servants from discharging their duty, said a CBI official. The two were arrested last year.

Deoria Police, which earlier probed the case, filed a chargesheet against Girija and Kanchan. In the second FIR, seven others were charge-sheeted, said Arun Kumar Maurya, SHO, City Kotwali.

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Kenya bans child adoption by foreigners

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A special Cabinet meeting at State House, Nairobi chaired by President Uhuru Kenyatta and attended by Deputy President William Ruto also directed the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection to formulate a new policy document to regulate the adoption of children by foreign nationals in Kenya/PSCU

NAIROBI, Kenya Sep 12 – The Cabinet has announced an immediate ban on adoption of children by foreign nationals.

A special Cabinet meeting at State House, Nairobi chaired by President Uhuru Kenyatta and attended by Deputy President William Ruto also directed the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection to formulate a new policy document to regulate the adoption of children by foreign nationals in Kenya.

The UK's Crown Prosecution Service, which represents the Indian authorities in court extradition proceedings, said it will be seeking permission to appeal against the Westminster Magistrates' Court order.

LONDON: The Indian government has lodged an appeal in the UK High Court after its extradition request for a couple, wanted for the murder of their adopted child, was turned down by a London court recently.

The UK's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), which represents the Indian authorities in court extradition proceedings, said it will be seeking permission to appeal against the Westminster Magistrates' Court order in the case involving Indian-origin British citizen Arti Dhir and her husband Kaval Raijada, wanted in India for the murder of their adopted 11-year-old son Gopal and his brother-in-law.

An investigation by Gujarat police has claimed that the accused had hatched a plot to adopt Gopal and then insure him for around Rs. 1.3 crore before staging his kidnapping and murder in India and then split the life insurance payout.

"We have lodged an appeal on behalf of the Indian authorities. The appeal will be considered on the papers by a single judge, who will decide whether or not to grant leave," a CPS spokesperson said.

BHOPAL: Childline filed an FIR against a couple at Shahpura police station (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Shahpurapolice-station) on Friday, after a boy they are in the process of adopting complained of assault. He also alleged that the couple

made him do household chores and treated him like a servant.

The boy, aged around 8-10 years, was brought to Bhopal after a couple from the city adopted him from an adoption centre from

Patna (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Patna) in Bihar (https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/bihar). The boy alleged

that his adoptive parents treated him badly, using abusive words to address him. Childline, along with Madhya Pradesh

A Perth couple says it was “insane” to make them live apart for months for them to be able to bring their adopted daughter to Australia. They say the separation has caused them extreme stress and their children are suffering while they wait to know the fate of their daughter.

Vineet Sharma’s GP says the debilitating back pain the Perth father is suffering from is due to psychosomatic symptoms because of stress. Mr Sharma’s wife, Madhvi Bhatnagar’s health has also deteriorated because of the extreme stress and anxiety resulting from the fact that Ms Bhatnagar had to live in India for many months, away from her husband and son, to meet a visa requirement.

Mr Sharma and Ms Bhatnagar were trying to get their adopted daughter Dhruvita to Australia. One of the preconditions for the visa is that one of the adoptive parents has to live out of Australia for 12 months before the visa application is lodged.

Six-year-old Dhruvita was the biological daughter of Ms Bhatnagar’s sister who passed away when Dhruvita was just one. The couple adopted her as per Indian law in order to raise her in their family in Australia.

When the couple applied for their adopted daughter’s visa, that’s when they say they experienced the “surreal complexities” of Australia’s adoption visas.

Through her latest book In My Heart, Nandana Dev Sen talks about adoption and love and why every child has a need to know where they came from

Nandana Dev Sen wears many hats – actor, activist, screenwriter, writer and recently, a mother. She adopted a girl child and is as happy as she has ever been. Her most recent book, In My Heart, also talks about adoption, and in the most intimate and sensitive way possible. The book is about Mia and her quest to discover her 'tummy mummy' — her biological mother. And what does she find? Read the book to find out! Here's a conversation we had with Sen that should convince you to grab this book. Excerpts:

The book wonderfully describes adoption to a young mind. How and when did you think of writing this book?

I’d been thinking for a long time – in fact, for as long as I’ve been working with children, many of whom were institutionalised, displaced or homeless – about how much we need a gentle children’s book about adoption. We know that loving homes could transform thousands of young lives in India, yet adoption is rarely addressed either in our books for kids or our mainstream media. In My Heart addresses questions that every adopted child is bound to ask about her/ his birth mother – I’ve witnessed them being raised by adopted kids within my own circle of friends and family, long before I became an adoptive mum. Going through the process myself made the topic even more emergent, of course.

Nowadays, more and more people are adopting, or at least want to adopt, and don't want to have a child of their own. What do you think of this trend?

Cuttack: Dealing with the case of a mother who had allegedly given away her child to a couple but now wants it back, the

Orissa high court has said biological parents are the most fit to raise a child and ordered the handing over of the three-year-old

girl to the birth mother within a week.

“In our land, parents hold a preferred position for children below five years. For that, there is a presumption that the parents are

the most fit and proper person to raise the child,” a bench of justice S K Mishra and justice A K Mishra said in its August 19

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Girl adopted for £13,000 must be sent back to US

By Terence Shaw, Legal Correspondent12:00AM BST 11 Jul 2000

AN English couple who adopted a baby girl for $19,000 (£12,700) from a Texan adoption agency have been ordered by a High Court judge in London to send her back to America.

Social services in England had contacted the American adoption agency to say there were compelling reasons to believe that the couple were not suitable adoptive parents. The judge was highly critical of how the adoption process had been handled, saying he did not think "anybody could begin to believe this was a proper way of deciding the future of a human being".