Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Bill, 2021 disadvantage

Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Bill, 2021 disadvantage

👉New adoption rules create confusionWith 

👉District Magistrates now having final say, cases already in courts are in limbo

11/09/2022

नए नियम क्या हैं ?

2015 में कुछ सुधार किए गये -

1 इसमें अतिरिक्त जिला मजिस्ट्रेट सहित जिला मजिस्ट्रेट को किशोर न्याय अधिनियम की धारा 61 के तहत गोद लेने संबंधी आदेश जारी करने की पावर देना शामिल है, ताकि मामलों का त्वरित निपटान सुनिश्चित किया जा सके और जवाबदेही बढ़ाई जा सके।

2 किसी भी बाल देखभाल संस्थान को जिला मजिस्ट्रेट की सिफारिशों पर विचार करने के बाद पंजीकृत किया जाएगा। जिला मजिस्ट्रेट स्वतंत्र रूप से जिला बाल संरक्षण इकाइयों, बाल कल्याण समितियों, किशोर न्याय बोर्डों, विशेषीकृत किशोर पुलिस इकाइयों, बाल देखभाल संस्थानों आदि के कामकाज का मूल्यांकन करेंगे।

There is confusion over the implementation of new adoption rules 

1 that require transfer of adoption petitions from courts to District Magistrates

2 and parents, adoption agencies and activists are worried that this could lead to further delays in a long and arduous procedure.

Thirty-four-year-old Meera Mehta* in Ahmedabad 

1 applied for adoption on Central Adoption Resource Authority’s (CARA) portal in February 2019.

2 After a long wait, she was referred a seven-month-old girl on June 22 this year. 

3 The following month she brought home the girl under pre-adoption foster care pending a formal adoption order from the court which gives legal status to the adoption.

 A petition was then filed the same month before the local court to obtain an order. Since then the court has completed receiving evidence, and hearing arguments and her lawyers were confident that an order would be passed by September-end. But the judge has now conveyed that he can’t proceed with the case as it has to be transferred to the District Magistrate as per the amended adoption rules.

“We have already spent more than two months on the court process and I am worried that the new rule will delay the entire process, and we will have to start all over again,” Ms. Mehta told The Hindu.

Her case is among 1,000 cases pending before courts across the country and now in limbo. Nearly, 3,500 adoptions are completed every year.

Parliament passed the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Amendment Bill, 2021,

in July last year, which empowers DMs to give adoption orders.

 Ironically, the intent of the amendment was to prevent court-related delays during adoptions because of a large number of pending cases. 

The amendments came into effect from September 1.

Source the hindu