Adoption annulled by Bombay High Court due to parents’ incapacity to manage 4-year-old’s behavior

MUMBAI: After receiving complaints from the boy’s adoptive parents over his “uncontrollable bad behaviour,” the Bombay High Court revoked the 4-year-old boy’s adoption. Though the youngster is fond of the adoptive parents and their 7-year-old biological daughter who is an older sister, the counselor concluded that the adoptive parents and the child do not have an emotional relationship. Justice Riyaz Chagla of the Bombay High Court made this observation in a judgment dated January 25.

The couple, who live in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, signed an affidavit on December 2 saying, “We have not bonded with the child, hence we would like to return the child.” They returned him to the Mumbai children’s home, where he had been adopted, on December 18.
On May 10, 2020, the boy was born. After being discovered by the police abandoned on September 6, 2022, the Child Welfare Committee granted the children’s home possession of him. The HC recognized the pair as the child’s parents and let them to take him with them in response to their joint appeal with the agency. But after a few months, his “bad behavior” was reported by the adoptive parents.
The infant was subsequently registered as “free for adoption” by Central Adoption Resource Authority after an adoption agency petitioned HC to revoke the registration. Additionally, as instructed by the HC, it requested the return of Rs. 2 lakh invested in the child’s name for his benefit.The adoption order “is recalled and adoption… is accordingly annulled,” according to Judge Chagla. “To re-register the child as ‘free for adoption’ in order to identify suitable prospective adoptive parents as soon as possible,” was his directive to CARA.