Thread by @barandbench

A petitioner in person appears in person for a plea seeking relaxations in the adoption modalities of India

Petitioner: Around 4,000 children are adopted in India every year and there are 3 crores orphans with thousands being infertile.

#supremecourt #orphan

Petitioner: Prospective parents are often not that educated. adoption is governed by Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act. this act is administered by law and justice ministry. but subject of orphans is handled by ministry of women and child. this is an anomaly

Petitioner: they are not taking action on my representation since they are busy and they say they dont want children to end up in wrong hands. But I have seen 6 instances in my life only

DYC J: 6 is only what must have been reported

Petitioner: just like what happened with credit cards. previously no one gave the credit card with the fear of being duped. but now all used credit cards. citizens of this country are not thief or scoundrels that they are being treated so

DYC J: What is the temple of healing you represent?

Petitioner: we do humanitarian work and naturopathy and we charge no fees.

SC: Registry says you work in the corporate sector?

Petitioner: Profession wise I am a senior manager with reliance industries and I am working with Mukesh Bhai. but my employer has no connection with this. they support me

Judges discuss
#supremecourt #adoption

SC: We are considered that you are genuine petitioner. We issue notice in the petition.
I was a adoption judge in Bombay HC for a long time. I was in a inter country adoption case and it has not left me yet. child changed hands from parent to parent and parent to parent

DYC J: None of the parents applied for the citizenship and he continued to be Indian citizen, He got into a drugs case and he was deported back. He knew no Indian languages.

DYC J: He was found by the missionaries of charity, so there are also instances of abuse. but you are right that we cannot do something for large number of orphans.

SC: Media wants TRP thats why they show that case. its very low in number

DYC J: Yeh case media ka tha hi nahi

Petitioner: Once I went to CWC in Mumbai and there was a real case where the woman was pregnant for fourth time and the man just wanted his brother to pay for the delivery. CWC came to know registered a criminal case. you tell me lordship what was wrong in this?

Petitioner: imagine the plight of the woman without a child. Jab tak is dard ko nahi samjhenge tab tak what can we do. ministers agree with my representation but they dont know what to do.

SC: Okay you made your point, we issue notice

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