Affected by Bombay HC’s stay order, 250 prospective adoptive parents write to Centre seeking help in adoption process
6 June 2023
Due to this, the process of issuing adoption orders, birth certificates, and no objection certificates (NOCs) have come to a halt in Maharashtra.
A group of over 250 affected prospective adoptive parents (PAP) has written to the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) — the apex government regulating body for adoption — on Monday, after the Bombay High Court’s stay on the transfer of adoption cases to the district magistrates (DMs) of Maharashtra.
On January 11, the Bombay HC had directed the state government not to transfer pending adoption proceedings to the DMs, as mandated under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Act, 2021.