Biological parents of child given for adoption file habeas corpus plea in Bombay HC

The bench said if the adoptive parents fail to get a stay from the other bench, appropriate orders will be passed on the next date of hearing on June 7.

By Vidya : The Bombay High Court has granted five weeks' time to a Mumbai couple to get a stay from another bench of the high court on an order of the Mumbai Civil court, which had directed them to return their adopted child to its biological parents.

The bench of Justices Revati Mohite Dere and Sharmila Deshmukh were hearing a habeas corpus petition filed by the biological parents through their lawyer, Edith Dey. Dey submitted before the court that when the lower court had directed the adoptive parents to hand over the child to the biological parents, it had stayed its own order for a few weeks. After the stay period lapsed, and when the child was not handed over, they approached the court with a habeas corpus plea.