Finally Anupama gets custody of her baby
Thiruvananthapuram Nov 24 PTI One year of waiting and weeks long tough legal battle protests and controversies came to an end as Anupama S Chandran finally held her baby boy in her arms soon after she stepped out of a court complex here along with her partner Ajith on a rainy Wednesday afternoon She got custody of the baby whom she last saw when the infant was three days old after a family court here this afternoon ordered that the child be handed over to his biological parents The child had been under the care and protection of his adoptive parents in Andhra Pradesh till last Sunday The development comes a day after the DNA tests on the baby Anupama and Ajith at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology RGCB established the couple as the parents of the child Emerging from the court complex the family travelled by car to the site of Anupamas protest these last few days in front of the Kerala State Council for Child Welfare KSCCW headquarters here I got my child He is in the car I am very happy now I wish to spend time with my child she told reporters When the court began its proceedings at 230 pm the Child Welfare Committee CWC submitted before it the results of the DNA test During the one-and-a-half hour long proceedings held in the chamber of the judge the baby who was in the custody of CWC at the Nirmala Sishu Bhavan was produced before the court following its directive The court then directed that the baby be medically examined and after completing all legal formalities ordered the CWC to hand over the child to his mother The court had posted the matter for November 30 but it preponed the hearing to Wednesday after the government pleader appealed to hand over the baby to its parents at the earliest Anupama 22 and her partner Ajith had been protesting in front of the KSCCW office at Thycaud here for some days demanding to get their child back The womans allegation that her child was forcibly taken away from her by her father a local CPIM leader triggered a political controversy following which the government had ordered a departmental probe into the incident Anupama had accused her parents of forcibly taking away her new-born child from her soon after its birth a year ago and alleged that though she had complained about it to police several times since April but they were reluctant to register a case against her family members However the Peroorkkada police here said a case was registered against six people — her parents sister sisters husband and two of his fathers friends — and that the delay occurred as they were awaiting legal opinion PTI HMP TGB APR APR
Thiruvananthapuram Nov 24 PTI One year of waiting and weeks long tough legal battle protests and controversies came to an end as Anupama S Chandran finally held her baby boy in her arms soon after she stepped out of a court complex here along with her partner Ajith on a rainy Wednesday afternoon She got custody of the baby whom she last saw when the infant was three days old after a family court here this afternoon ordered that the child be handed over to his biological parents The child had been under the care and protection of his adoptive parents in Andhra Pradesh till last Sunday The development comes a day after the DNA tests on the baby Anupama and Ajith at the Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology RGCB established the couple as the parents of the child Emerging from the court complex the family travelled by car to the site of Anupamas protest these last few days in front of the Kerala State Council for Child Welfare KSCCW headquarters here I got my child He is in the car I am very happy now I wish to spend time with my child she told reporters When the court began its proceedings at 230 pm the Child Welfare Committee CWC submitted before it the results of the DNA test During the one-and-a-half hour long proceedings held in the chamber of the judge the baby who was in the custody of CWC at the Nirmala Sishu Bhavan was produced before the court following its directive The court then directed that the baby be medically examined and after completing all legal formalities ordered the CWC to hand over the child to his mother The court had posted the matter for November 30 but it preponed the hearing to Wednesday after the government pleader appealed to hand over the baby to its parents at the earliest Anupama 22 and her partner Ajith had been protesting in front of the KSCCW office at Thycaud here for some days demanding to get their child back The womans allegation that her child was forcibly taken away from her by her father a local CPIM leader triggered a political controversy following which the government had ordered a departmental probe into the incident Anupama had accused her parents of forcibly taking away her new-born child from her soon after its birth a year ago and alleged that though she had complained about it to police several times since April but they were reluctant to register a case against her family members However the Peroorkkada police here said a case was registered against six people — her parents sister sisters husband and two of his fathers friends — and that the delay occurred as they were awaiting legal opinion PTI HMP TGB APR APR
