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.

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Data provided by CARA reveals that more girls were put up for adoption in the last two years

New Delhi: It was touted as a sign of changing social mores. In May this year, the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), under the Maneka Gandhi-led Ministry of Women and Child Development, claimed that since 2012, nearly 60 per cent of those adopted across the country were girl children.

CARA CEO, Lt. Col. Deepak Kumar, even went on record to say that this had nothing to do with more girls being given away for adoption. He instead asserted that Indian couples were “preferring” girls.

But ThePrint has now found that there is more to it than growing progressive mindsets among Indians who want to be parents, at least in the last two years. CARA, in an RTI response, has said that 60 per cent of the children registered for adoption in the last two years have been girls.

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There was a fair amount of shock and disbelief in many circles when news, on the 7th of July 2018, broke that a nun at Nirmal Hriday (a hospice established by Mother Teresa) in the town of Ranchi had been arrested and remanded to judicial custody by a court for allegedly selling a baby at the Nirmal Hriday home. According to another story, “Arti Kujar, head of the Jharkhand State Child Protection Society, told Reuters that they suspect the home was charging upwards of $600 for each baby, depending on what the prospective parents could afford to pay.”

Soon enough came the suitably shocked protestations from the Mother Teresa founded Missionaries of Charity, along with the expected disclaimer – “We are shocked to know what has happened in our home… it is completely against our moral conviction,” Sunita Kumar, spokesperson for the Missionaries of Charity, stated. “We are carefully looking into this matter. We will take all necessary precautions that it never happens again if it has happened.”

Shortly thereafter came political cover to the aid of the Missionaries of Charity, when Bengal chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, on the 12th of July, tweeted her full support to the organization:

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JAMMU, June 22: The case of a BJP worker from Rajasthan posing as Dr Jitendra Singh, a well known Jammu based BJP leader and a nationally known Diabetologist, has been reported from Bharatpur in Rajasthan.

This man, who is a namesake of Dr Jitendra Singh and whose full name is Dr Jitendra Singh “Faujdar”, had also unsuccessfully contested the Rajasthan Assembly election in 2003 from Nadbai, Bharatpur constituency as a BJP candidate.

The most interesting part is that when Jammu based Dr Jitendra Singh was nominated to BJP National Executive Committee for the second consecutive term in March this year by the BJP National President Rajnath Singh, this Bharatpur based Dr Jitendra Singh sent out a fictitious press hand-out to this effect as if he had been appointed. What is more, this man also arranged felicitation functions for himself in and around Bharatpur hailing his nomination as BJP National Executive Committee (NEC) Member by displaying the name in the list of BJP NEC members which was actually the name of Jammu based Dr Jitendra Singh. He has also been reportedly going around throwing his weight in local administrative circles as BJP National Executive member.

The case of this imposter has now been brought to the notice of BJP Party High Command and a formal complaint regarding this has been filed by former BJP district President of Bharatpur Rajvir Singh who has produced local newspaper clippings of felicitation functions held in the honour of this imposter and also released to the Rajasthan press the photographs of real NEC member Dr Jitendra Singh who is presently based at Jammu. In his complaint to Party High Command, Rajvir Singh writes that this imposter is not only misusing the name of BJP but also making a laughing stock of the BJP workers.

Harmonising laws is vital

The proposed amendments to child marriage/adoption laws are progressive but are short-sighted and not in tandem with parallel existing family law legislations

The Ministry of Women and Child Development (WCD) has proposed two amendments to the existing statutory enactments relating to marriage and adoption laws. The first proposal seeking approval of the Union Cabinet attempts to amend Section 3 of the Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006 (PCMA). Reportedly, the WCD is stated to have circulated a draft Cabinet note proposing to make child marriages void ab initio, ie invalid from inception. Currently, Section 3 of the PCMA makes child marriages voidable ie, which can be terminated or annulled at the option of an aggrieved party.

The second suggested change is in the realm of enabling speedier adoption of children by proposing to amend provisions of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, (JJ Act) to recognise District Magistrates/Collectors as the competent authority for issuing adoption orders under the JJ Act.

Beneficial, benevolent and progressive as the proposals may be, they are shortsighted and do not seem to be in tandem or harmony with parallel existing family law legislations. This may tend to create statutory conflicts with contradictory and inconsistent interpretations in issues relating to marriage, adoption and guardianship. The wholesome solution then may be to let them remain as it is or incorporate similar amendments in other existing laws for harmonious views.

Rajasthan news

The five girls, aged between three to six years, are currently lodged in a children’s home under the social justice and empowerment department in Bharatpur. (Getty Images/iStockphoto (REPRESENTATIVE?PIC))

Child Welfare Committee (CWC), Bharatpur on Thursday filed a writ in a family court against adoption of five minor girls by foreigners from an orphanage in the city, raising question about adoptees security in alien countries.

The five girls, aged between three to six years, are currently lodged in a children’s home under the social justice and empowerment department in Bharatpur.

They have been adopted by couples from America, Spain and New Zealand after completing legal process of adoption. Three girls will go to Spain, one to New Zealand and one to America.

The statements of the children were recorded by the Child Welfare Committee (CWC). During investigation, it was found that all the children hail from Bihar and some of them are not even orphans, triggering suspicions of a child trafficking racket.

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Maulana Held for Sexual Abuse at Pune Orphanage; 36 Children Rescued, Trafficking Suspected Representational Image.

Pune: In one of the biggest rescue operations carried out in the city, 36 children were freed from a Muslim orphanage in Pune's Katraj area after two of them alleged persistent sexual exploitation by a maulana. The accused cleric was arrested by the police and booked under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act on Friday.

Two boys, both 10-year-old, had recently escaped from the orphanage and were found at the railway station by an NGO.

High Court reunites child with prospective parents

CARA had rejected adoption application after parents got US citizenship

The High Court of Karnataka has directed the Central Adoption and Resources Agency (CARA) to treat a couple who sought to adopt a girl child as ‘In Country’ (Indian) parents rather than ‘Intra Country’ parents. They had obtained US citizenship after applying for adoption and CARA subsequently rejected the couple’s application. The HC has, however, said that this case due to its “peculiar circumstances” will not be a precedent for similar cases.

The husband is an IIT graduate while the wife is a graduate from an IIM. They have worked in many MNCs and had worked in the USA for a while. Married in 2006, they have been residents of Bengaluru since 2016. They made an application for adoption in 2016.

They applied for adoption through the Central Adoption Resource Information and Guidance System (CARINGS) and were registered a Prospective Adoptive Parents (PAPs) in 2016. They were eligible for ‘in-country’ adoption at the time. But the husband obtained US citizenship shortly and it was intimated to CARA through a declaration. As per CARA’s direction, a new application was filed in 2017.

36 Children Rescued From Pune Madrasa After Cleric Arrested For Sex Abuse

The madrasa reportedly had children from Bihar, who are aged between 5 and 14.

PUNE: A total of 36 students were rescued by the police from a Pune Madrasa on Friday after reports of sexual abuse surfaced. The children, who come from Bihar, as as young as 5 years of age.

The Maulana of the Madrasa, 21-year-old Rahim, had been arrested on charges of sexual assault in Pune's Katraj suburb after two 10-year-old children ran away from the Madrasa.

After they were rescued by a Child Welfare Committee, they said that they ran away as one of the clerics who visited the institution used to sexually abuse another inmate. They also reportedly revealed that revealed that Rahim would ask them them to undress and then touch their private parts.

Orphanage horror: 37 abused kids rescued

Children, aged between eight and 15 years, were crammed into a small makeshift shelter built using tin sheds; cops launch hunt for the other maulana

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Incident came to light after two boys escaped; the police arrest one maulana

In one of the biggest rescue operations carried out in the city, as many as 37 children, who had been forced to live in the most inhuman conditions, were freed from an orphanage in Katraj. Subsequently, the kids revealed that they were being sexually and physically exploited at the shelter.