Supreme Court India: We can sympathize. We cannot accept it legally | Buying Infants Is Not Adoption Its Illegal

The Supreme Court has made it clear that buying babies and presenting them as adopted is illegal. It has commented that they should be treated humanely, but cannot be justified legally.

We cannot legitimize illegality with our special powers.

They took a two-day-old baby.. Where is the humanity in this?

Supreme Court comments on the illegal purchase of children in the name of adoption

The next hearing has been postponed to May 7.

New Delhi, April 8 (Andhra Jyoti): The country's highest court has made key comments in the case of illegal purchase of children in the name of adoption. It questioned how a two-day-old baby can be purchased and adopted, and where is the humanity in this. In fact, it clarified that those children cannot be considered adopted, they were purchased. It stated that those children can show sympathy for their adoptive parents, and moreover, they cannot be legally accepted.

Selling children under the guise of a clinic..

In Peerjadiguda under the jurisdiction of Medipalli police station in Rachakonda, a woman named Shobharani used to sell young children to childless couples under the guise of a clinic. Some reporters who came to know about this matter conducted a sting operation. They went to the clinic and made a deal for Rs. 4.5 lakhs by promising to take a baby girl. Some took photos of the children. A complaint was filed at Medipalli police station with these details. The police who entered the field identified 15 children who had already been sold and handed them over to the Child Welfare Committee. The children's adoptive parents approached the High Court regarding this. While the single bench gave orders in their favor, the divisional bench came to the opposite judgment. Due to this, the adoptive parents filed a special leave petition in the Supreme Court. A two-judge bench comprising Justice Sudhanshu Dulia and Justice K. Vinod Chandran took up the matter on Tuesday. First, the petitioners' lawyer Seshadri Naidu explained that the petitioners adopted the babies as they did not have children and that the emotional bond between them had grown over the past two years. He urged the Supreme Court to give the children to their adoptive parents using its special powers. Responding to this, the bench said that it cannot justify illegality with its special powers. The hearing of the case was adjourned to the 7th of next month.