ORDER :

1. This writ petition is filed ‘to declare the action of the respondents in unreasonably delaying and not disposing of the petitioners’ case to adopt the minor child ‘Yesu Babu’ within the time-limits prescribed in the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015 (for short ‘the Act’) and the Adoption Regulations, 2017 (for short ‘Regulations 2017’) as illegal and arbitrary and a consequential direction to the 5th respondent to expeditiously number, process and dispose of the petitioners’ Adoption OP filed/received on 26.02.2021 along with all related applications, petitions etc.

2. Case of the petitioners is that, they are the citizens of Italy and are husband and wife; as they could not conceive a child naturally, they have adopted a female child from India in April, 2016 when the child was seven years old; as they wanted to adopt one more child, they have submitted an application to the Italian authorities along with reports and other documents, such as Home Study report (HSR), their psychological evaluation and personological evaluation, commitment for adoption, third party opinions/affidavits etc. and thereafter, they have filed an application before the