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NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has issued notices to the Centre and others on a PIL which sought proper framing of guidelines by the Government to facilitate adoption of Indian children by foreigners. A Division Bench headed by Acting Chief Justice Vijender Jain while asking the respondents -- Ministry of Social Justice and the Delhi Government to file their replies posted the matter for further hearing to September 20. The petitioner Sandeep Chilana in his PIL filed through counsel Aparajita claimed that in the absence of proper guidelines for inter-country adoptions, hundreds of abandoned, orphan and runaway children were either loitering on the roads or languishing in the various children remand homes, which lacked basic infrastructural and rehabilitation facilities. According to the petition though the Juvenile Justice Act 2000 empowered the Government to frame guidelines for giving in adoption to foreigners, no such initiative had been taken by the Government so far in this regard. It was submitted that the six children homes in Delhi mechanically prepare records to show that the children admitted to the institutions are not traceable and thereafter the child is confined to the home until he or she turns 18. Such actions on the part of the children homes was illegal and defeated the very purpose of the Act which stipulated that if the parents were not traceble it was the duty of the state to ensure that such children were rehabilitated and socially integrated by way of adoption, foster care or sponsorship. The petition also urged the court to direct the Government for constituting a high powered committee to examine conditions of such children in remand homes- PTI
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