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KOCHI: Petition of a couple from Thiruvananthapuram in the High Court to cancel the adoption as they could not get along with their adopted daughter. The High Court directed the Thiruvananthapuram District Legal Service Authority Secretary to give a detailed report after talking to the girl. The plea will be heard again on November 17. Retired Justice Devan Ramachandran is considering a petition filed by a government official and his wife.
The only son of the petitioners died in a car accident on January 14, 2017 The petitioners say that the death of their 23-year-old son left them weak and they decided to adopt a child to overcome the grief. A 13-year-old girl was legally adopted on February 16, 2018, from Nishkam Seva Ashram in Ludhiana, Punjab due to a delay in adoption from Kerala. They provided educational and all other facilities to the child. The petition also states that the girl from North India is unable to accept them as her parents. As there was no reconciliation, the child was placed under the care of the Thiruvananthapuram Child Welfare Committee on 29 September 2022. When the girl grew up, she was transferred to the Swadar home. The couple's demand is to cancel the adoption process and send the child back to the ashram in Ludhiana. A petition was filed earlier in the High Court for this purpose. However, the petition was disposed of on December 12, 2022, directing action to be taken under the Adoption Regulations, 2017. This year the central government revised the adoption regulation. According to this, action should be taken to cancel the adoption through the District Collector. An application was made to the Collector but no action was taken. The Ashram in Ludhiana was also unwilling to take the child back. The couple approached the High Court again. The government counsel informed the High Court that the girl said that she was staying at the Swadar home because her parents did not want her to stay with them. The High Court then ordered the district legal service authority secretary to talk to the girl and submit a report.
Grief of the couple Sometimes the child shows violent behaviour and will close the room and sit inside without eating. The child herself has said many times that before we adopted her, another North Indian family adopted her and they cancelled the adoption and returned her to the ashram. She had told us that she was not interested in studying in Kerala and wanted to study in the Hindi region. We took her to a higher secondary school run by Malayali teachers in Madhya Pradesh. The violence continued there also. Finally, we brought her back as requested by the principal. In 2021, she attacked my wife and tried to leave the house. After that mental health treatment had to be given. (From the application made by the parent to the chairperson of the Child Welfare Committee for adoption of the child)