‘Reports suggest widespread illegal adoption, trafficking of babies in Telangana’: HC, takes up suo motu PIL plea

The reports submitted in a writ appeal over Shishu Kendra in Nalgonda district “do project a widespread nature of activities of illegal adoption or human trafficking of babies and young children in the State”, the Telangana High Court said on Tuesday.

Making this observation and remarking that it involved larger public interest, the Bench of Chief Justice Aparesh Kumar Singh and Justice Vakiti Ramakrishna Reddy took up the matter suo motu as a Public Interest Litigation. “Many of these children are infants and their biological parents are also not traceable, and the middlemen are absconding,” the HC Bench said.

The suo motu taken up PIL petition over ‘illegal adoption and human trafficking of infants and children in Telangana’ should also assess if the Juvenile Justice Act-2015 was being effectively implemented in the State, the Bench said.