( 1 ) THIS Special Civil Application has been filed on behalf of a minor girl named Bhavi Gaurang Vaishnav, aged 3 years residing at 195, Kribhconagar, Surat through her adoptive parents Gaurang Kirtirai Vaishnav and Ms. Darshana Gaurang Vaishnav. While the girl Bhavi has been named as petitioner No. 1 her adoptive parents are petitioners Nos. 2 and 3.

( 2 ) THE case with which the petitioners have come before this court is that petitioner No. 1 was born to a woman who was a widow. The said widow handed over the custody of the petitioner No. 1 to a social organisation named Shri Kasturba Stree Vikas Gruh, Jamnagar and it is this Vikas Gruh which gave her the name of foram. This female child named foram by the Vikas Gruh was kept in custody of Kokilaben Amratlal Dangi, Social Administrator of said Vikas Gruh and said Social Administrator was the guardian of the said child named foram.

( 3 ) WHILE the said child named foram (petitioner No. 1) was being brought up at the said Vikas Gruh, a couple -Gaurang Kirtirai Vaishnav and Ms. Darshana Gaurang Vaishnav approached the aforesaid organisation - Vikas Gruh to adopt the child. The said couple had married on 4. 8. 83 and