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Produce babies under care, institution told

Staff Reporter

Juvenile Justice Board acts on complaint against the orphanage

KOZHIKODE: The Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) here has directed that four infants being brought up at a charitable institution at Chevayyur here be produced at its sitting being held on Wednesday.

The Board and Chief Judicial Magistrate E. Francis have issued an order in this regard.

The Board has also directed that a report be submitted on three unwed mothers and their babies being lodged at a house run by the charitable institution.

The Board has given the directive based on a complaint filed by the regional coordinator, Adoptive Coordination Agency, Kozhikode, K.K. Subair, on February 18, that the charitable institution has not been given foundling home licence by Social Welfare Department and Orphanage Control Board.

The Board, on receiving the complaint, sought a report from the police station concerned on the details of the institution where newborn babies were allegedly being lodged without the stipulated licence.

The police had made its report available at the office of the Chief Judicial Magistrate on February 25 evening.

Mr. Francis and the Board members Nazeer Chaliyam and K.K. Shiny, besides District Probationary Officer M. Mukundan, had visited the charitable institution.

At the time of the inspection, four infants without mothers and three with their mothers were at the house. The Kerala Adoptive Families Organisation district committee had at a press conference some time ago alleged that there was a perceptible drop in the number of infants available for adoption at the Adoptive Coordinating Agency centres in Malabar.

The organisation had alleged that illegal adoption of infants was on the rise. Its district committee president, T.J. Varkey, said 24 childless couples whose home study reports were ready were waiting for children. Other couples were waiting for home study reports to be completed.

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