Vatsalya Trust v. Pravin Krishnarao Giradkar And Anuradha P. Giradkar(Prop.Parents)Sai@Veera Pravin Giradkar(Minor)

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION AND GENERAL AND INHERENT JURISDICTION INDIAN ADOPTION PETITION NO.85 OF 2021 ALONG WITH JUDGE'S ORDER NO.173 OF 2021 Vatsalya Trust, Mumbai .. Petitioner Pravin Krishnarao Giradkar Anuradha Pravin Giradkar .. Co-Petitioners-PAPs Sai @ Veera Pravin Giradkar .. Minor Ms. Sangeeta Nagpal for the Petitioner.

Mr. O. Hareendran, Scrutiny Officer of ICSW, is present. Mr. Dilip R. Talekar, Chamber Registrar, is present. CORAM : A. K. MENON, J.

TH DECEMBER, 2021.

DATE : 16 P.C. :

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The petitioner - Vatsalya Trust, a child welfare organization and specialized adoption agency, has proposed adoption by the prospective adoptive parents of a minor male child Sai, born on 12 th September 2020. The prospective adoptive parents are both Indian citizens. They are aged 45 and 46 years respectively. They have been married since 2008, but do not have any biological children. The minor is now 6 years of age and is presently said to be in foster care with the prospective adoptive parents. 2.

The prospective adoptive father is a Financial Consultant and self1/3

employed and the prospective adoptive mother works with the Life Insurance Corporation of India as an Administrative Officer. Income records are found to be in order and so are the medical reports of both the prospective adoptive parents. The Home Study Report is also found to be acceptable. The medical reports of the prospective adoptive parents and the child are also found to be acceptable. The grand-mother of the prospective adoptive child has agreed to execute an undertaking to look after the child. The undertaking is in English but the signature of the deponent is in vernacular, however there is a separate undertaking executed by the brother-in-law of the prospective adoptive father and that is found to be satisfactory.

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Accordingly, having considered the Child Study Report and the consent and willingness to adopt and having found the preadoptive foster care arrangement in order, I have no hesitation in allowing this petition. Accordingly, I pass the following order :- (i) The petition is made absolute in terms of prayer clauses (a) to (e).

(ii) The prospective adoptive parents shall invest a sum of Rs.1,50,000/- in the name of the child in LIC's Single Endowment Plan No.917 for 18 years. No loan shall be taken on the policy. The petitioner shall file evidence of this fact having been communicated to the LIC in the registry.

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(iii) Undertakings are accepted (iv) Judge's Order is signed separately.

(v) Petition is disposed in the above terms.

(A. K. MENON, J.) 3/3 SNEHA ABHAY DIXIT by SNEHA ABHAY DIXIT Date:

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