MY NAME IS ‘TODAY’

“We are guilty of many errors and many faults,

But our worst crime is abandoning the children;

Neglecting the fountain of life.

Many things we need can wait,

But the child cannot.

Right now is the time;

His bones are being formed,

His blood is being made,

His senses are being developed.

To him, we cannot answer, “Tomorrow”, His name is “Today”.

-by Gabriel Mistral”

Petitioners who are Indians by birth and having spent their considerable time in the Indian soil and claiming to be childless are seeking for adoption of a child and in search of the said prospective child, they have taken to the legal course of adoption which has made them to land before this court for redressal of their grievance.

2. Petitioners have prayed for quashing of the decision rendered by Central Adoption and Resources Agency (for short ‘CARA’) dated 15.03.2018 – Annexure- Z whereunder petitioners have been intimated that following decision has been taken by the High Level Committee in its meeting held on 27.02.2018 on the request of petitioners to take in adoption the child Baby Shomya (fem