Over 5000 case files stored in the basement of the old district court building in Sector 17 were damaged due to flooding

Around 5,000 to 6,000 High Court case files stored in the basement of the old district court building in Sector 17 were damaged due to flooding caused by heavy rainfall on Sunday. The downpour led to sewage backflow, resulting in extensive flooding in the basement.

The Punjab and Haryana High Court maintains two record rooms in this basement, which houses approximately 20 lakh files of decided cases. After the heavy rain, security guards inspected the basement, which also houses Chandigarh’s Arbitration Centre, and discovered that about a foot of water had accumulated, damaging thousands of files.

The flooding left stacks of case files, some decades old, soaked and susceptible to further damage. The waterlogged area was reportedly caused by an overflow of sewage and toilets in the basement.

Upon being informed, the security staff alerted High Court officials. Following this, Chief Justice of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Justice Sheel Nagu, along with Justice Deepak Sibal, who is also the Chairman of the Building Committee, and other High Court officials, personally visited the record room to assess the damage.

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Samarpan Programme for Adoption, Research Counselling and Consultancy. - ANNUAL REPORT 2016

Chandigarh: The Punjab govt is establishing adoption agencies in every district of the state to simplify the process of child adoption and creating 172 new posts to strengthen the infrastructure for the adoption.Social security, women and child development minister Dr Baljit Kaur has instructed all the additional deputy commissioners to ensure that child adoption applications received in the state are processed within the stipulated time. Kaur said the department is providing financial assistance of Rs 26 lakh per year to various non-governmental organisations involved in the adoption process. Over 300 destitute and orphaned children through the department's proper implementation of the child adoption process.

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The legislative history shows that restraint is appropriate in the case of adoption if there is opposition from one of the parents. In the context of a complex divorce, such as the case with the parents of an adult, even more restraint is appropriate when it comes to (step-parent) adoption. Moreover, the child has now reached the age of majority, which also requires restraint, since adoption is in principle intended as a child protection measure.

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An overseas Korean adoptee from Denmark has filed a lawsuit for information disclosure against the National Center for the Rights of the Child (NCRC) in order to receive information on her biological family. With the help of the Adoptees' Right to Know Legal Representatives (LAAR) and the Danish Korean Truth Finding Group (DKRG), a press conference was held for the plaintiff, who is currently in Denmark, at the Seoul Administrative Court in southern Seoul's Seocho District on July 12, before the initial court date.

The NCRC was originally established as part of the Ministry of Health and Welfare to ensure that policies and actions were aligned to protect children's welfare. This agency is responsible for adoption and post-adoption services for international and domestic adoptees. One of its key roles is to advocate for and ensure adoptees' right to know their self-identifying information, including about their birth family.

According to the lawsuit and the LAAR, an adoptee advocacy group, the plaintiff originally filed a request for the information in 2021 with Korea Social Service, the agency that handled her adoption. However, the only information the organization gave was the surname "Lee" and that the birth father had passed away. The information gave no help in resolving Lee's identity; there are over 7.3 million Lees in Korea, accounting for 14.7 percent of the entire population.

In 2022, Lee again filed a request for the information including birth family — this time, however, with the NCRC. Lee was dismayed to receive the same information as her previous search. The NCRC cannot go beyond certain privacy laws, and birth parents can refuse to disclose information.

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TARRANT COUNTY — Disturbing new revelations about an adoption attorney accused of trying to purchase unborn children from pregnant women in jail. 

Documents show how much was paid to female inmates in the Tarrant County Jail and messages revealing the pressure they appeared to be getting from the attorney to give up their babies. 

At least two female inmates in the Tarrant County Jail were allegedly given hundreds of dollars and promised more to sell their unborn babies to a Texas adoption agency illegally. 

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Born in 1979 at Daegu Fatima Hospital, he was entrusted to the 8th US Army in November of that year
and set out to find his biological parents after 40 years… Scheduled to enter Korea in May of this year

Kim Bok-sun (German name Regina Brandl , 44 ) , who was adopted to Germany at the age of 4 months, is desperately searching for her biological parents.

Kim was born around September 7, 1979 at the Fatima Hospital in Daegu. She entered the Baekbaekhap Orphanage run by the Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres on October 2. Her Korean name, Kim Bok-sun, was given to her by an orphanage official at the time. Kim was handed over to the 8th US Army on November 1, and was adopted by a family in Aulendorf, Germany, around January of the following year.

Kim has no memories of her biological parents or Korea because she was adopted as a newborn. Furthermore, her adoptive parents, although devout Catholics, were very strict, so she said she never had a comfortable conversation about her biological parents or Korea. Kim is currently working as a teacher and yoga instructor for disabled children in Germany.

She began searching for her bloodline in earnest about two years ago. The advice that a Korean adoptee who was looking for his biological parents gave me was crucial: "Time doesn't wait, so I hope you find your biological parents quickly before they pass away."

Although she grew up as a German citizen since she was four months old, Kim said, “My body instinctively remembers Korea.” When she was suffering from a stomach disorder, she heard that Korean food was good for her health and started making it herself. The first time she tried gochujang, she really liked it. Strangely enough, after she started eating Korean food as her staple food, her stomach disorder that had been bothering her completely disappeared. Kim is a Korean food enthusiast who enjoys eating budaejjigae and makes kimchi herself. Kim

visited Daegu in May of last year to find her biological parents. At the time, she visited the Dongbu Police Station and registered her DNA information. She plans to enter the country this year as well. She will visit Korea with her German husband next month. She also plans to attend the ‘2024 World Korean Adoption Convention’ hosted by the Overseas Koreans Office from May 21 to 24 . "I like gardening and exercising, and I wonder if my biological mother is like this. Right now, my roots feel like fog, and I want to find my biological parents and fill that void." Contact: Sisters of St. Paul of Chartres, Daegu Province, 053)659-3333.

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