Harveer Dabas

Bijnor: After two children — Chirag (12), a student of class 4, and his neighbour Mahir (4) — were found murdered in Ketwali Pandki in Amroha district on Wednesday, Chirag’s 15-year-old adopted sister, who is also his cousin, turned out to be his killer, police said on Sunday.

Chirag’s father, Raju Saini, had adopted his sister’s daughter 15 years ago when he had no child. However, later his wife bore two children.

Amroha SP Kunwar Anupam Singh said, “We detained the deceased’s sister who confessed to her crime. She is not Chirag’s biological sister, so he used to taunt her. On May 8, when her parents were out for agricultural work, Chirag taunted her again. She struck him with a stick on his neck, causing him to collapse unconscious, after which she strangled him to death. She hid her brother’s body behind a heap of bricks. Cops recovered the rope and stick used in the crime.

”The body of Mahir was exhumed on Friday. Cops are still determining the cause of his death.

CHHATRAPATI SAMBHAJINAGAR: The Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar rural police on Thursday arrested a couple on the charges of murdering a four-year-old girl they had allegedly adopted without going through the due process and by paying Rs 5,000 to her biological parents in Jalna district six months ago.

Police said the arrested couple Faheem Shaikh (35) and wife Fauziya (27) were originally from Ajanta and currently residing in the Moghulpura area of Sillod tehsil in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district. A local court on Friday sent the couple to two days of police custody.'

‘Purchased’ child died of infections after assault: Cops
Lawyers in Sillod abstained from representing the couple in the court following a resolution in protest against the excesses committed on the girl, identified as Ayat Shaikh. In the FIR registered with the Sillod city police station, the accused were booked and arrested for murder and under relevant sections of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.

Superintendent of police Vinaykumar Rathod said: "The autopsy report stated that the child died because of the infections caused by the injuries she had suffered in the alleged assault by the couple. The couple said they had paid Rs 5,000 to her biological parents to adopt the child. Buying or selling a child is an act of crime. We will investigate these violations as well."

An officer said the accused claimed to have a bond paper that stated the "willingness" of the child's biological parents to give their daughter for adoption to Shaikh and Fauziya. He said: "During questioning, Fauziya admitted to have assaulted the child, but said she was unaware that the action would lead to her death."

The officer said: "As the couple were trying to perform the child's last rites, some local residents alerted the police. Following this, the girl was taken to a sub-district hospital, where doctors declared her dead. The child's burial was performed in the presence of her biological parents."

South Korean adoption system systematically violated human rights: 'Children were made adoptable'

A new week, a new generation of the Goed Ingelichte Kring . Adoption is often seen as a noble act: a chance for orphaned children to find a loving home. Yet international adoption brings with it a complex and painful story. A truth commission from South Korea has now determined that the country systematically violated human rights. Host Sam Hagens spoke about it with radio host Mischa Blok and Alice Flikweert of the foundation Netherlands Korean Rights Group. Both were adopted from South Korea.

Fraud exposed

After a lengthy and in-depth investigation, a South Korean truth commission has found that the country committed decades of systematic human rights violations in intercountry adoptions. The investigation, which lasted two years and seven months, focused on adoptions to 11 Western countries and included a detailed analysis of 367 files. It covers the period from 1954 to 1999, a time when South Korea sent large numbers of children to the West.

"You read in black and white that fraud was committed on a large scale, and that children were made adoptable. That is a term that you actually loathe," says Mischa. Many files were falsified so that adoptees could no longer find their parents. "Instead of putting the name of the father and mother in it, they noted that you were foundling. Taking that away from a child - the basic information that you are entitled to, such as who your parents are and where you come from - is of course terrible."

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  The European Children's Trust (formerly The Romanian Orphanage Trust) is an international non-governmental organisation based in London. It was formed in 1990—in the post Ceausescu era with the aim of alleviating the plight of children in Romania. Ceausescu's regime had left a legacy of many children abandoned by their parents to inadequate orphanages often referred to as "dying rooms".
 

  Since 1990 The Romanian Orphanage Trust has evolved into The European Children's Trust working in countries of eastern Europe and Central Asia to help build child welfare systems to supersede the former institutionalised systems of childcare. The aim is for the new services to be adopted by the local authorities in order to become truly local services. The Trust has experienced at first hand the circumstances of children with HIV/AIDS with inadequate care systems and how the onset of HIV/AIDS impacts on the economic viability of families and consequently the economic viability of a country.
 

  The Trust's core competence is in preventing the break-up of vulnerable families in situations of dire poverty and extreme social hardship. Its experience is that state orphanages, which are home for children affected by HIV/AIDS are:
 

Switzerland is considering banning international adoptions following the exposure of questionable past practices. Other countries have halted international adoptions in the name of child welfare.

No more foreign children should be adopted in Switzerland: this is the plan presented by the Federal Council last January. The Federal Department of Justice and Police (FDJP) has been tasked with preparing a bill by the end of 2026. This radical decision was taken after the publication of a damning report in 2023. 

Berne then acknowledged significant irregularities in international adoptions that took place between 1970 and 1999. The findings of the Zurich University of Applied Sciences highlighted systemic failures and negligence on the part of federal and cantonal authorities. Also read:End of international adoptions in Switzerland

Several thousand children from Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, India, Colombia, South Korea, Lebanon and Romania were brought to Switzerland through illegal practices, including child trafficking, falsified documents and the lack of information about their origins.

Written consent from biological parents was often lacking.  

The Karnataka High Court recently comprising of a bench of Justice Hemant Chandangoudar while allowing the petition filed by the two couples and quashing the proceedings initiated against them under the JJ Act held that in absence of a declaration that a child is deserted by his biological or adoptive parents or guardians, filing of charge sheet under Section 80 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act 2015, is without any substance. (Banu Begum and Ors. v. the State of Karnataka)

Facts of the case

A charge sheet was filed alleging that accused No.1 gave birth to twin babies on 14.9.2018. Accused No.3, who was married and issue less through accused No.4, intended to take the daughter of accused No.1 on adoption. Accused Nos.1 and 2 agreed for giving adoption to accused No.3 on 14.9.2018 when accused No.1 came to the hospital for delivery, the accused No.1 had asked accused No.3 to come to the hospital. Accused No.1 delivered twin babies and one of the daughters had breathing problem and the said daughter was taken by accused No.3 by registering the name of the mother as Jareena Begum and thereafter took the daughter of accused Nos.1 and 2 on adoption by executing a deed on Rs.20/- stamp paper.

The learned Magistrate took cognizance of the offence punishable under Section 80 of Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (for short `Act’) and issued summons to the petitioners. Taking exception to the same, this petition is filed.

Issue before the Court

Kendrapada: A court in Jagatsinghpur district sentenced a woman and her adopted brother to life imprisonment on Saturday for murdering their mother in 2021, who had opposed their illicit relationship.

Mani Kandi (33) and Rajesh Kandi (29) were found guilty of strangling their mother, Urmila Kandi, to death in Bandar village. District and sessions judge Srinibash Pratihari also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 each on the convicts, with an additional three-month sentence if they fail to pay.

According to the prosecution, Urmila had adopted Rajesh, her sister's son, following her husband's death. Mani, who was deserted by her husband, had returned to live with her mother. The duo developed a relationship, which Urmila strongly opposed, leading to frequent arguments.

On the night of June 22, 2021, during a heated argument, the convicts strangled Urmila and attempted to bury her body near their house. Villagers caught them in the act and informed police.

Public prosecutor Bhajahari Kar said the conviction was based on testimonies from 23 witnesses, postmortem reports, and other evidence. The court found both accused guilty under IPC sections 302 (murder) and 34 (common intention).

Entrepreneur and media personality Anitha Clemence has spent most of her adult life wondering about her adoption.
When she was 26, she went to India with her then-boyfriend.
There, she began to unravel her past, even though it was difficult.

Anitha Clemence was actually worried about what she would find out about her biological family.

– I was really scared. I had a boyfriend in high school who was adopted from Chile. When he went back, he found out that his mother had been a prostitute and drug addict, so I was scared of what I might encounter, says Anitha when we meet at the Soho House members' club in Stockholm.

Anitha knew that she had been found on the street outside a hospital in the city of Kottayam, just a few days old. It was the summer of 1978 and nuns had cared for her inside the hospital.

In this strictly Catholic region of India, it is very common for children born out of wedlock to be left outside the hospital, as the mother otherwise risks social death and exclusion.

South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission(TRC) has confirmed some of the overseas adoption cases from the 1970s and 1980s as human rights violations and recommended the Korean government to officially apologize to its victims. It is the first time for a government agency to recognize human rights violations in past overseas adoptions and acknowledge the state’s responsibility. 

The commission’s decision includes illegal donation practices exposed earlier by the Korea Center for Investigative Journalism(KCIJ)-Newstapa. Newstapa’s investigation shed light on how certain adoption agencies had increased the business profitability of overseas adoption by forcing donations from adoptive parents and had them as unofficial income sources. By forcing donations, Korean adoption agencies were able to take an amount of money that exceeded the standard adoption fee set per child.

The commission’s decision is significant as it officially acknowledges the human rights violations experienced by Korean-born overseas adoptees. However, the announcement immediately faced criticisms due to its limitations.

TRC’s findings of 2.5-year-investigation