Court stays order on two children for adoption
26 June 2010
Court stays order on two children for adoption
Special Correspondent
CHENNAI: Justice T. Sudanthiram of the Madras High Court has stayed for four weeks the operation of an order of the Chairperson, Child Welfare Committee (CWC), Kellys, directing the Guild of Service (Central) to immediately transfer to the Balamandir Adoption unit two children who were under the care and custody of two proposed adoptive parents.
In a petition, Gemma Bridget D'Silva of Pozhichalur said she was a spinster. The Guild of Service by a letter of February this year had given a female child Sweety to her in temporary custody prior to legalisation of the adoption.
Undertaking
The service organisation obtained a Pre-Adoptive Foster care undertaking from the petitioner. When she produced the child to the Chairman, CWC, on June 21, the committee gave a letter to the petitioner asking her to produce the documents as to how the child was taken in pre-adoptive foster care.
Simultaneously, it issued an order to the Guild of Service to transfer the child to another adoption agency. No show cause notice was given to the proposed adoptive parent. The child had been adopted in accordance with the guidelines issued by the Supreme Court and the High Court, the petitioner said.
A similar petition had been filed by Thirunavukkarasu of Kalpakkam, a proposed adoptive parent of Thaneer, a male child.