Illegal adoption racket report sparks outrage

Bachpan Bachao Andolan files petition with Child Rights Commission after MiD Day Report

Illegal adoption racket report sparks outrage

Bachpan Bachao Andolan files petition with Child Rights Commission after MiD Day Report

A day after MiD DAY reported how illegal adoption business was thriving in Delhi, an NGO Bachpan Bachao Andolan is planning to take legal action against the racket and has forwarded applications in this regard to the National Legal Services authority, National Commission for Protection of Child Rights and the National Human Rights Commissions.

"The report by Mid Day that girls are being sold for Rs 5000 and boys at Rs 50, 000 not only shows the moral bankruptcy in our society but reaffirms the gender bias in favour of the boys.

It also exposes the laxity in policy, gaps in the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act, 1956, Juvenile Justice Act, a portion of which can be used for adoption of children who are abandoned or who are in need of care and
protection and the Guardians and Wards Act of 1890 that is applicable to the religions other than Hinduism. On the one hand, the law and other stringent procedures make it difficult for the genuine parents to adopt children while on the other hand, the incidents of children being sold show how easy it is for some unsocial elements in the society to kidnap children or procure them through unscrupulous means and sell them as cattle," said Rakesh Sengar of Bachpan Bachao Andolan.

MiD DAY had conducted a sting operation on an illegal child adoption racket being carried out from a shady clinic in Kalyanpuri area of Delhi. The maid at the clinic had promised the undercover reporter that she will provide him with an infant as soon as she procures one. As far as payment was concerned, she had said that she wouldu00a0 take it only after she had given the child.