Thiruvananthapuram: The Kerala State Council for Child Welfare (KSCCW) lacked a valid licence to function as a specialised adoption agency when it gave up for adoption the newborn of a former student activist who made news recently during her bid to get the baby back.
Now family court records have proved correct Anupama S Chandran's allegation that the KSCCW had produced the licence of the Kollam centre and thus misled the former during the recent litigation to over her child.
The former Students' Federation of India (SFI) leader urged the state government to dismiss the KSCCW officials in the light of the revelation that the body had misled the family court by submitting fake documents.
In response to her Right to Information Act query on the documents submitted by KSCCW in the family court, Anupama received from the latter a copy of the adoption centre licence, which shows validity till June 30, 2021, and a copy of the orphanage registration which has a validity up to December 2022.
Citing the RTI papers Anupama told mediapersons that it has been proved that the KSCCW did not have licence when her child was given for temporary adoption on August 5, 2021 and when the family court was approached by the KSCCW for allowing her child to be given for permanent adoption.
The child was taken away by Anupama's parents and then given for adoption three days after his birth in October last year. They intensified the search for their child after Ajith, who divorced his wife, started living with Anupama. After DNA test proved that Anupama is his biological mother, the child was returned to her after it was brought back from an Andhra Pradesh-based couple who had adopted him.
