JUDGMENT

Per Court:

Admit. Mr. Pulkundwar learned AGP waives service for the Respondent. Civil Revision Application is taken up for final disposal.

2. This Civil Revision Application is filed under Section 102 of the Juvenile Justice (Care And Protection of Children) Act 2015 (‘the JJ Act’) for challenging the Order dated 8th March 2022, passed by the learned District Judge -1 at Bhusawal in Civil Miscellaneous Civil Application No. 24 of 2020. The said application was filed by the present revision applicants under Section 56(2) of the JJ Act read with Rules 51 and 55 of the Adoption Regulations, 2017 (“Regulations of 2017”). These Regulations of 2017 are now superseded by the Adoption Regulations 2022 (“Regulations of 2022”) made applicable from the publication in the official gazette on 23rd September 2022.

3. Applicant no.1, being a prospective adoptive parent, had registered in the child adoption and resource information and guidance assistance for the adoption of a minor child, namely, Aayat Fatima, born on 15th November 2019. By the impugned Order, said application for the adoption of the minor child has been rejected.

4. It is the case of the Applicants that on 13th August 2