*IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI

% Judgment delivered on: 14th November, 2017

+ W.P.(C) 6759/2016

MASTER DIVYANSH ARORA MINOR THROUGH

HIS NEXT FRIEND RAJ KUMAR ARORA ..... Petitioner

Children who are adopted early can even gain enough weight to overcome any nutritional disadvantages they may have suffered in the womb.

Children who are adopted early can even gain enough weight to overcome any nutritional disadvantages they may have suffered in the womb.(Illustration: Sudhir Shetty)

India has proposed changing the law that governs adoption in order to fast-track court clearances, which often delays the process by more than two years. The proposed amendment to the Juvenile Justice Act of 2015 empowers district courts to declare children legally free for adoption, moving away from the busy courts of civil magistrates, which struggle with backlogs of pending cases and rarely prioritise adoption. The move is expected to bring the time taken per adoption down to about two months.

As things stand, only 2,671 children were adopted between 2016 and March 14, 2017, shows government data. There are no official figures for the number of orphans in India, but non-governmental organisations put the number at about 50,000.

Apart from encouraging more people to adopt, the move will bring huge psychological and physical benefits for the adopted child. Less than 1 in 10 children aged 6 months to 23 months, including those who live with family, get an adequately healthy diet, shows data from the National Family Health Survey 4 (NFHS4) released in 2017. The nutritional intake of children in cities is only marginally better than those who live in villages, with only 10.1% of urban kids and 8.2% of rural children getting an adequate diet of four or more food groups, excluding milk. Since toddlers who live with their families are more likely to be adequately fed than those who eat in a large group, very often with older children, early adoption also packs a nutritional punch.

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Nilakshi Jorendal was adopted when she was three.

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Nilakshi's biological father, a farm labourer, had committed suicide in 1973.

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"Michiel is een symbooldossier"

Barbara en Lieven vechten voor hun kind

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Barbara en Lieven hebben de adoptieprocedure voor hun zoon Michiel doorlopen. Pas daarna begon 'de miserie'.

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The Belgians have paid money for the child

2016-05-22

In the first half of April 2016, 7-year-old Micha?ek, whose fate moved many people in Poland, was helped by the Polish judge Ma?gorzata Franczak abducted by the Belgians, who under the pretext of family care create a private orphanage, buying children from abroad, and then on them earn.

The offenses of child abduction and child abuse, abuse of functions and failure to perform duties were committed by Belgian and Polish citizens: Anna B?o?ska with employees of the Warsaw adoption center, employees of the District Court in Opole Lubelskie, Rados?aw Pomorski, Chairman of the Family Department of this court, Ma?gorzata Franczak, Judge of the Family Department, Ewa Giza, head of the Family Department secretariat, and policemen of the District Police Headquarters in Opole Lubelskie, commandant Krzysztof Oszust, Edyta ?ur, Piotr Solis, Józef Ko?acz, and others acting deliberately and in collusion to the detriment of the abducted minor Micha?ek W. to achieve personal and non-property benefits.

In the first half of March 2016, the Free Society Association notified the police, the prosecutor's office, the minister of justice and the minister of internal affairs and administration about the prepared abduction of Micha?ek. The authorities of the Polish state predictably refused all help, deliberately leading to the abduction of the child.

Foreign adoption under police escort

2017-12-25

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Two days before Christmas Eve, 22 December 2017, Adam Krupi?ski, a Polish citizen at the age of 11, was taken to the airport in a police convoy and expelled from Poland for foreign adoption, probably to Italy, in a flagrant violation of Art. 52 of the Polish Constitution and art. 6 and 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The child objected to the previous attempt of his foreign adoption, saying that he would rather kill himself than go abroad and leave his beloved grandmother, mother and siblings. His family was not informed about the adoption proceedings in court or about the expulsion of a child from his homeland.

PETITION: https://petitiongo.org/en/petition/initiative-for-family-protection-in-europe

The Supreme Court on Thursday initiated a process to look into the working of orphanages across the country, saying the nation’s future depended on the destiny of its children and nothing can be more disastrous than them being sold.

Expanding the scope of a petition filed by National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), which pertained to alleged trafficking of children in West Bengal, a three-judge bench headed by CJI Dipak Misra asked the states to apprise it about the running of orphanages, treatment given to the children in these centres and method of adoption followed. The court stayed an order of Calcutta High Court, restraining the national commission from acting on instances of alleged child trafficking in the state.

Using the line, “the child is the father of man”, the bench referred to a 1996 order of the court dealing with child protection. The bench said the court was conscious in that case that children should not be compelled to work in factories. “That being the position, when the children are sold, nothing can be more disastrous than this… A right of a child in a society is sacred, for the future of the country depends upon the character and the destiny of the child and the State has a great role in that regard. It is in the realm of protection,” it underlined.

“In view of the aforesaid, it is necessary to have a comprehensive view of the entire country pertaining to running of orphanages, the mode and method of adoption, the care given and the treatment meted out to the children. For the said purpose, it is necessary that all the States shall be added as respondents in the matter”, the court said and gave the states two months to respond after they are arrayed as parties.

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Legal adoption can only be done through Specialised Adoption agencies (SAAs) that are recognised by state governments.

In the Wadala case, the buyers of the three newborns were a Worli doctor, a Bengaluru software engineer and a Thane gynaecologist-paediatrician couple.

In the Wadala case, the buyers of the three newborns were a Worli doctor, a Bengaluru software engineer and a Thane gynaecologist-paediatrician couple.

Mumbai: The legal procedures associated with adoption of children are elaborate, with an aim to ensuring the safety of the child and ascertaining the background of potential parents.

With the Wadala Truck Terminus police’s recent bust of a baby-selling racket, wherein the arrested traffickers sold newborn babies to childless couples for Rs 4 to Rs 4.5 lakh each, parents and experts have said child traffickers exploit the fact that it takes time.