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CHENNAI: The Child Welfare Committee (CWC) in Chennai is grappling with a multitude of issues. While shortage of members, lack of leadership and poor infrastructure are the glaring problems, one of the essential functions — record keeping — is being completely overlooked. The lack of digitisation and safety of the records is a looming concern.

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Children who are left in hospitals or on street corners are referred to as ‘abandoned children’, whereas in certain cases, the mother surrenders her child and the child is referred to as ‘surrendered child’. Any placement agency will have both abandoned, or surrendered children. In the case of surrender of a child, the parents willing to surrender should execute a document ‘Free will under no compulsion to surrender the child’. As far as destitute and abandoned children are concerned, CWC has to give its clearance that the child is legally free for adoption.

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“The CWC is supposed to keep a record of all the children that are produced before it,” said an eminent child rights activist, on condition of anonymity. “In the case of abandoned or surrendered children, who go in for adoption, they have a right to know who their biological parents are. These details can be found in the case files maintained by the CWC. But, I have my doubts about how safe this confidential information is and whether sufficient care is being taken to ensure the records are in order as they do not have a proper clerical staff or adequate infrastructure.”

Suresh Babu and Asha of Thrissur in Kerala were elated on Tuesday when they met their foster child after six months. The child had been placed under the care of Bapuji Children’s Home at Gokulam in the city after the Mysuru district police took her ...

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NEW DELHI: Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) — Indi ..

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1. By this petition, the petitioner seeks a direction in the nature of mandamus thereby directing the respondents to issue directions to the respective Visa Issuing Authorities that Certificate from Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) is not mandatory in view of an order of a Court under Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 (hereinafter referred to as „the HAMA Act?) from a Competent Court and further for a direction to respondent No.3, i.e., Ministry of External Affairs to issue a passport to the petitioner.

2. The petitioner was born on 15.01.2004. The biological parents of the petitioner are Shri Raj Kumar Arora and Smt Neeru Arora. The petitioner was adopted by his paternal uncle and aunt, i.e., the elder brother of Shri Raj Kumar Arora and his wife, namely, Shri Dalip Kumar Arora and Smt Vaishali Arora. Formalities and ceremonies for adoption were performed on 26.01.2015. A registered Adoption Deed was executed on 27.01.2015. The adoptive parents, who were married since 11.07.2008, did not have any child despite undergoing various medical procedures. The adoption of the petitioner was ratified by the Court of District & Sessions Judge (West), Tis Hazari Courts, Delhi, in a Guardianship Petition No.01/2015 by judgment dated 28.05.2015.

3. The adoptive parents of the petitioner are German citizens with Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) status and live in Hannover, Germany.

4. As per the petitioner, since the adoption was an inter-country adoption, the parents of the petitioner approached CARA, as directed by the German Consulate at Delhi. CARA refused to assist the petitioner's parents but required them to apply through proper channel for adoption on the premise that CARA was the Central Authority regulating inter-country adoptions, which were guided by the provisions of The Hague Convention, 1993 and accordingly, the parents would require a No Objection Certificate from CARA prior to applying for a visa and for such a Certificate they had to make an application for adoption with CARA. The parents of the petitioner allege to have approached CARA various times but there was no response or assistance from them.

5. It is contended that despite the fact that there is a valid adoption of the petitioner by the adoptive parents and there is a Deed of Adoption dated 27.01.2015 and a judgment of the Competent Court dated 28.05.2015 ratifying the adoption, CARA has required the parents of the petitioner to go through a cumbersome process by making an application for adoption to CARA.

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New Delhi: A 40-year-old woman identified as Kavita was arrested on Sunday from Delhi for allegedly running children selling racket. The woman apparently sold babies to childless couples at price ranging from Rs 2 Lakh to Rs 5 Lakh.

As of now, a court has sent the woman to a police remand. After the arrest, two babies were also recovered from her custody.

The Delhi police got to know about the racket when they met one of the accused last month. The accused posed as a childless couple. After the arrest was made, four children were also rescued from him subsequently.

One of the four children died at the hospital later. It was later revealed that the baby belonged to a minor girl who had become pregnant after being allegedly raped in outer Delhi, police said. More arrests were made but Kavita was on the run. She was finally arrested after she came to her house in south Delhi, they said.

It must be noted that minister of Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi in July ordered all the states to inspect the child care homes run by the Missionaries of Charity, all over the country, in view of the recent child-selling scandal reported from a Mother Teresa institution in Jharkhand’s Ranchi. “Taking cognisance of the recent cases of illegal adoptions carried out by Missionaries of Charity in Jharkhand, Maneka Gandhi has instructed the states to get childcare homes run by Missionaries of Charity all over the country inspected immediately,” the ministry said in the statement.

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Mohammad Yaqoob Mir said Meghalaya has the largest number of child trafficking in the coal mines areas of Jaintia Hills after Assam.

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Individuals in a live-in relationship will once again be able to adopt children from and within India after the country’s nodal adoption agency decided to withdraw a circular issued earlier this year disallowing them from doing so.

The Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), in a circular issued on May 31, barred applicants in a live-in relationship from adopting a child on the ground that “the Authority would like the children to be placed only with a stable family and individuals in a live-in relationship cannot be considered as stable family.”

“We have decided to withdraw the circular and applications from prospective adoptive parents will be examined on a case-by-case basis,” Secretary, Women and Child Development Ministry, R.K. Shrivastava told The Hindu on Thursday.

The decision was taken at the last meeting of the steering committee of CARA, chaired by Mr. Shrivastava, in August, and will benefit both domestic and international applicants.

The eligibility criteria under Adoption Regulations, 2017, permit single women to adopt a child of any gender, while single men can adopt only boys. When a married couple seeks to adopt a child, it needs to give its consent for adoption and should be stable marriage for at least two years. Applicants have to be physically, mentally and financially stable to raise a child.