JUDGMENT :

1. This Petition has been filed under section 56(1) of the Juvenile Justice Act 2 of 2016 read with Clause 17 of the Letters Patent seeking for the following reliefs:

(a) The second and third petitioners who are the prospective adoptive parents may please be given the minor Aparna in adoption and be declared as the parents of the said minor, for all purposes allowed by the law; and

(b) The Birth Certificate Issuing Authority, Cantonment Board, St. Thomas Mount cum Pallavaram, Chennai -16 may be directed to issue Birth Certificate for the said child within five working days from the date of application, as per the provisions of Regulation 36 of the Adoptive Regulations of CARA.

2. The minor child Aparna was born on 21.01.2021. According to the petitioners, she was declared legally free for adoption by the Child Welfare Committee Order, Vellore dated 29.07.2021 as per the provisions of Section 38 of Juvenile Justice Act and the said child is registered in the Child Adoption Resource Information and Guidance System with the Registration No. RIPA/TN/2-0335 for the purpose of adoption as envisaged in Section 56(1) of the Juvenile Justice Act.

3. The first petitioner is a recognized Specialized Adoption Agency registered under section 65 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act of 2015. The second and third petitioners are registered in the Child Adoption Resource Information and Guidance System with the Registration No.PrKa116071880 and they got married on 09.08.2003. According to them, the second petitioner is a self employed businessman engaged in building stones quarrying whose annual gross income is Rs.5,10,141/- and third petitioner is a Primary School Assistant Mistress whose annual gross income is Rs.6,37,992/-. According to the petitioners, both the second and third petitioners have been found eligible and suitable to adopt the minor child Aparna as per the criteria mentioned in Section 57 of the Juvenile Justice Act and Regulation 5 of the Adoption Regulations of CARA, based upon their Home Study Report.

4. Minor Aparna has been referred to the second and third petitioners online through Child Adoption Resource Information and Guidance System. The said petitioners accepted to adopt the said minor by signing the Child Study and Medical Reports on 14.09.2021. The child has been given in Pre-Adoption Foster Care to the second and third petitioners on 15.09.2021, after obtaining a Pre-Adoption Foster Care Affidavit as per the provisions of Section 58(3) of Juvenile Justice Act and Regulation 11(1) of the Adoption Regulations of CARA.

5. The second and third petitioners have undertaken in the said Pre-Adoption Foster Care Affidavit that they will allow the authorized social worker of the Specialized Adoption Agency to visit their home for undertaking post-adoption follow-up to ascertain the progress and well-being of the child in the adoptive family as per section58(5) of the Juvenile Justice Act.

6. The second and third petitioners have further undertaken to inform any change in the place of their residence to the Specialized Adoption Agency and to the State Adoption Resource Agency concerned and to this Court for the purpose of post adoption Follow-up.

7. The second and third petitioners have also undertaken to up bring the said child as their own and to accord the same status, rights and privileges to the child at par with the natural born child as provided in pre-adoption foster care affidavit.

8. The first petitioner which is a Specialized Adoption Agency has decided to place the child in adoption as per decision of the Adoption Committee dated 14.09.2021.

9. In the petition filed in support of this O.P.No.645 of 221, the petitioners have also stated that they have not filed any other application for the adoption of the said child in any other Court of Law.

10. Before the learned Master, the first petit