Adoption regulator clueless on SC order

Adoption regulator clueless on SC order

20 Mar 2010, 0916 hrs IST

There seems to be no respite for the surrogate German twins. Adoption

regulator Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA) seems to be clueless on a

Supreme Court order to make an exception in the case, allowing the

biological parents to legally adopt the twins and therefore enabling them to

move to Germany.

As TIMES NOW followed up on the case, it was discovered that the agency

avoided answering our queries on the plight of the German twins.

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court had directed the agency to look into

the possibility of the father adopting the children, on humanitarian grounds

since Germany has refused to grant the children citizenship.

The SC categorically said that CARA had to process the twins' adoption. CARA

has been stating over the past hearings that it is unable to do so as

surrogacy is beyond its sphere of operations and there is no law on

surrogacy in India.

When TIMES NOW caught up with the CARA CEO, she avoided our questions on the

German Twins case.

On 17th of March, the Supreme Court directed the Central Adoption Resource

Agency to consider as a one-time measure the plea of a German couple for

adoption of twins born through a surrogate Indian mother.

The court had earlier on February 25 asked the CARA of Union Women and Child

Welfare Ministry to consider grant of adoption rights as a special case to

the German couple.

The German couple had sought Indian citizenship for the children born in

February 2008 through surrogate mother Martha Immanual Khristy on the plea

that the twins otherwise would not be allowed entry into Germany which does

not recognise surrogacy.