The Calcutta High Court has directed that a two-year-old child would remain with a couple who had adopted her, despite the biological mother’s tearful plea to get her back, noting that a lower court had passed the order for adoption of the child.
A division bench comprising justices Ashim Kumar Ray and M M Banerjee observed that since it was hearing a habeas corpus petition by the girl’s biological mother Jayashree Chowdhury, it would not tinker with the order of a Malda district court that had allowed the adoption.
The bench said Jayashree would have to move the appropriate forum if she wanted any relief with regard to the adoption issue.
The division bench had earlier this week directed the authorities concerned in Malda district to locate the child by December two, following which the CID produced the child along with the couple who adopted her in the court on Friday.
Jayashree had married Sumanta Sarkar in her teens and had given birth to the child in September 2014.
