Delhi High Court Seeks CARA's Response On Framework For Facilitating Adoptions Of Children Orphaned During COVID-19
2 years, 10 months ago

Delhi High Court Seeks CARA's Response On Framework For Facilitating Adoptions Of Children Orphaned During COVID-19

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has sought response of the Central Adoption Resource Authority on the framework for facilitating adoptions in case of children who have been orphaned during the COVID 19 pandemic. "Let CARA file a status report as to the details of the framework which has been put in place for facilitating adoptions, especially in the case of children who have been orphaned during the COVID-19 pandemic," the Court ordered. The Court also perused the status report filed by CARA giving the status of applications pending with the authority. In the said status report, the authority had informed the Court that as on date, there were 41 applications under the Adoption Regulations, 2021 which have been received by CARA.

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All about CARA, India’s adoption regulation body | Explained
1 year, 1 month ago

All about CARA, India’s adoption regulation body | Explained

The Hindu  

The story so far: To adopt a child, India’s almost 30,000 prospective parents wait for an average of three years. CARA is the nodal body regulating the adoption of “orphaned, surrendered and abandoned children” in India. Adoption agencies urged the court to review the regime, “with a particular reference to the CARA’s status and functioning and the procedural hindrances to …

“We Have Not Stayed Adoptions”: Bombay High Court Clarifies, Court To Continue Hearing Matters
1 year, 6 months ago

“We Have Not Stayed Adoptions”: Bombay High Court Clarifies, Court To Continue Hearing Matters

Live Law  

The Bombay High Court clarified on Friday that it hadn’t stalled any adoptions and all procedures should continue as they were before the Juvenile Justice Amendment 2021. Civil courts dealing with adoptions must continue to do so till final disposal of this matter on July 7.” After an intervenor pointed out that several matters had already been transferred to the …

Supreme Court Allows Woman Who Sought Abortion To Give Child For Adoption To A Couple Registered With CARA
1 year, 10 months ago

Supreme Court Allows Woman Who Sought Abortion To Give Child For Adoption To A Couple Registered With CARA

Live Law  

In a plea filed by a 21-year old unmarried woman seeking permission to terminate a 29-week pregnancy, the Supreme Court of India, while noting that the petitioner in question had agreed to give birth to the child and place the child for adoption, asked AIIMS to take all necessary precautions in the interest of the safety and health of the …

Delhi High Court Directs CARA To Issue NOC To NRI Couple For 2011 Adoption
1 year, 11 months ago

Delhi High Court Directs CARA To Issue NOC To NRI Couple For 2011 Adoption

Live Law  

Directing CARA to issue an NOC within 30 days to an NRI couple for adoption of a child, the Delhi High Court in a ruling said the application being prior to the coming into force of Adoption Regulations, 2022, the "adoption would not be strictly required to be dealt with in the procedure prescribed in the said Regulations." "The Court …

Delhi High Court Paves Way For Inter Country Adoption By Foreign Couple, Orders Expeditious Completion Of Legal Formalities
2 years ago

Delhi High Court Paves Way For Inter Country Adoption By Foreign Couple, Orders Expeditious Completion Of Legal Formalities

Live Law  

Paving way for an inter country adoption by a foreign couple, the Delhi High Court on Friday directed the authorities to expeditiously conclude all legal formalities relating to adoption of a minor child with special needs, who was found abandoned in October 2019 in a cremation ground. The bench observed that undisputedly no reservation came to be made by a …

Why are adoption rates so low in India where thousands of children live in child care institutions?
2 years, 9 months ago

Why are adoption rates so low in India where thousands of children live in child care institutions?

The Hindu  

In the summer of 2019, Vinay Raj* and his wife Kanika gathered their family and friends to announce the most important decision they had made in their eight years of marriage: they were going to adopt a baby girl. Reforms needed In October last year, a group of over 300 prospective adoptive parents and adoptive parents wrote to the Minister …

60 Important Judgments Of Delhi High Court In 2021
2 years, 11 months ago

60 Important Judgments Of Delhi High Court In 2021

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court gave several significant verdicts in 2021. "Right Of Access To Justice Gravely Hampered Due To Pandemic; Take Expeditious Steps For Hybrid Courts Infrastructure": High Court To Delhi Govt Observing that citizens' right of access to justice has been gravely hampered due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, the Delhi High Court directed the Delhi Government to take …

'CARA Extremely Callous In Complying With Court's Directions, Unnecessarily Harassing Adoptive Parents': Delhi HC Summons CEO, Member Secretary
3 years, 1 month ago

'CARA Extremely Callous In Complying With Court's Directions, Unnecessarily Harassing Adoptive Parents': Delhi HC Summons CEO, Member Secretary

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has observed that the Central Adoption Resource Authority has been extremely callous in its approach towards compliance of a judicial order, requiring the authority to frame guidelines for inter-country adoptions under Hindu Adoptions & Maintenance Act.It further noted that the authority had been unnecessarily harassing the Petitioners, who are. The Delhi High Court has observed that …

High Courts Weekly Roundup [August 23, 2021 To August 28, 2021]
3 years, 3 months ago

High Courts Weekly Roundup [August 23, 2021 To August 28, 2021]

Live Law  

Allahabad High Court 1. Calcutta High Court Explains The High Court recently had the opportunity to extensively define what constitutes a "commercial dispute" as contemplated under Section 2 of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015. Delhi High Court Issues Notice To Centre On WhatsApp's Plea Challenging Traceability Clause Under IT Rules 2021 A Division Bench of Chief Justice DN Patel and …

Supreme Court Proceedings For Protection Of Children Orphaned During Covid-19 Not Bar On High Court: Petitioner Tells Delhi High Court
3 years, 4 months ago

Supreme Court Proceedings For Protection Of Children Orphaned During Covid-19 Not Bar On High Court: Petitioner Tells Delhi High Court

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court today continued hearing a PIL seeking direction to Centre and Delhi Government to safeguard the interest of the children who have lost their parents to Covid-19 and who do not have anyone else to take care of them and face the risk of being trafficked.The Petitioner, Advocate Jeetender Gupta appearing in person, told the High Court …

Delhi High Court Issues Notice To CARA On OCI Couple's Plea Seeking Parity With Domestic/ NRI Couples For Child Adoption
3 years, 4 months ago

Delhi High Court Issues Notice To CARA On OCI Couple's Plea Seeking Parity With Domestic/ NRI Couples For Child Adoption

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has issued notice on a writ petition filed by an OCI couple, stating that despite having registered with CARA for adoption of a child in 2018, they have not received any referral till date; whereas applicants who registered subsequently have already received referrals.The Petitioners apprehend that CARA is not following. The Delhi High Court has issued …

High Courts Weekly Round Up [August 2, 2021 – August 7, 2021]
3 years, 4 months ago

High Courts Weekly Round Up [August 2, 2021 – August 7, 2021]

Live Law  

Allahabad High Court "Live-In Relation Can't Be At Cost Of Country's Social Fabric": Allahabad HC Imposes 5K Cost On Married Woman Living With Partner Observing that live-in-relationship cannot be at the cost of the social fabric of this Country¸the High Court recently dismissed the protection plea of a married woman living with her partner with an exemplary cost of Rs.5,000. …

Indian Adoption Laws: Endless Wait For Children Orphaned During Pandemic
3 years, 6 months ago

Indian Adoption Laws: Endless Wait For Children Orphaned During Pandemic

Live Law  

The COVID 19 has given birth to the issue of legal adoption of the large number of children orphaned due to the pandemic, and protection of such orphaned and/or abandoned children from child trafficking and flesh trade. The upper age limit of a child to be adopted under the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 is 15 years, and under …

COVID-19 pandemic in Delhi left 32 children orphaned, says child rights commission
3 years, 6 months ago

COVID-19 pandemic in Delhi left 32 children orphaned, says child rights commission

Firstpost  

Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had on 14 May said the government will bear the cost of education and upbringing of children who were orphaned during the pandemic New Delhi: The Delhi child rights panel has identified 32 children who have been orphaned during the COVID-19 pandemic in the National Capital. Ten more children, living with single parents, have lost them, …

PILs to safeguard children orphaned due to COVID: HC seeks stand of Centre, Delhi govt
3 years, 7 months ago

PILs to safeguard children orphaned due to COVID: HC seeks stand of Centre, Delhi govt

India TV News  

Children orphaned due to COVID-19 should be protected and guarded against being trafficked till they are legally adopted, two PILs have urged the Delhi High Court, which sought the response of the Centre and the Delhi government on the issue on Monday. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jasmeet Singh issued notices to the Union ministries …

PIL In Delhi HC Seeks Direction To Safeguard Interest, Provide Interim Custody Of Children Orphaned Due To COVID
3 years, 7 months ago

PIL In Delhi HC Seeks Direction To Safeguard Interest, Provide Interim Custody Of Children Orphaned Due To COVID

Live Law  

A Public Interest Litigation petition has been moved before the Delhi High Court seeking direction to Union of India, Government of NCT Delhi to safeguard the interest of the children who have lost their parents to Covic-19 and who do not have anyone else to take care of them and face the risk of being trafficked. The bench of Chief …

PIL In Delhi HC Seeks Direction To Safeguard Interest, Provide Interim Custody Of Children Orphaned Due To COVID
3 years, 7 months ago

PIL In Delhi HC Seeks Direction To Safeguard Interest, Provide Interim Custody Of Children Orphaned Due To COVID

Live Law  

A Public Interest Litigation petition has been moved before the Delhi High Court seeking direction to Union of India, Government of NCT Delhi to safeguard the interest of the children who have lost their parents to Covic-19 and who do not have anyone else to take care of them and face the risk of being trafficked. The bench of Chief …

Adoption authority gets HC notice on plea
3 years, 8 months ago

Adoption authority gets HC notice on plea

The Hindu  

The Delhi High Court has issued notice to the Central Adoption Resource Authority on a plea by a Hindu couple, living in the U.S., seeking a no-objection certificate to adopt a child born to Christian parents. “The present petition raises an issue of enormous importance as it relates to a legal vacuum in respect of adoptions carried out prior to …

Legal Vacuum In Respect Of Adoptions Carried Out By Christian Parents Prior To 2016: Delhi High Court Seeks Response From Centre, CARA
3 years, 9 months ago

Legal Vacuum In Respect Of Adoptions Carried Out By Christian Parents Prior To 2016: Delhi High Court Seeks Response From Centre, CARA

Live Law  

The Delhi High Court has granted protection to a US-based Indian Christian couple, apprehending legal action for adopting a child in India in the year 2014, under the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956. A Single Bench of Justice Pratibha M. Singh noted that prior to coming into effect of the Juvenile Justice Model Rules in 2016, there was no …

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