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The Times of India
The Times of India
National
Swati Deshpande | TNN

Single working person can adopt; order denying single aunt's plea reflects 'medieval' concepts': Bombay HC

MUMBAI: Observing that "by no stretch of the imagination, a single parent can be held to be ineligible to be an adoptive parent on the ground that he or she is a working person," the Bombay high court on April 2 allowed a single divorced working woman to adopt her sister’s child.

The district court denying the adoption reflected a 'medieval' concept of family, said the HC.

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