Last Update: February 13, 2023, 23:39 IST
Priyank Kanungo, chairman of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights. (File photo: ANI)
In a letter to the director of the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) said it is bound to take strict action keeping in mind the welfare of children.
Apex child rights body NCPCR has slammed the central adoption agency CARA for its “negligent approach” towards the plight of three Indian children abandoned in Malta after adoption.
In a letter to the director of the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) said it is bound to take strict action keeping in mind the welfare of children.
“The Commission has requested your good offices to furnish details of children abandoned by adoptive parents in Malta. The Commission has received a reply from you, mentioning that the Government Department of Malta have been contacted to provide information about, if they were adopted from India,” it said.
The NCPCR said, “It is stated that in some news reports, a Government official of Malta has himself disclosed that the children who have been abandoned in Malta were adopted from India.”
The commission said it has found that CARA has taken a “casual approach to the matter”.
The NCPCR said, “Therefore, the commission is required to submit to your good offices all the details of the children who have been sent to Malta for adoption since the year 2017 along with their follow-up reports within three days.” “
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