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HC directive on adoptions

By Our Legal Correspondent

HYDERABAD MAY 2. A Division Bench of the Andhra Pradesh High Court today called the placement agencies dealing with inter-country adoptions of orphans `business centres' and set aside the decrees made by the family court permitting such adoptions.

The Bench comprising Justice B. S. A. Swamy and Justice Yethi Rajulu was dealing with a batch of appeals in this regard and went into the alleged `child trafficking' involving some agencies.

The Bench added some guidelines to the already existing ones framed by the Supreme Court. Only Government agencies such as CARA will now on be permitted to oversee with inter-country adoptions.

The Bench found fault with the inaction on the part of various Government agencies, and pointed to various irregularities committed by these placement agencies and upheld the decisions of the family court wherein inter-country adoptions were refused.

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