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tarun (Advocate)     25 April 2014

Adoption of muslim child

One Muslim family have agreed to adopt Female(2 years ) child  (child of real sister) of  another muslim family  and wish to get the same registered under a legally binding agreement for all intent and purposes. 

As per my knowledge , adoption is not permitted under personal law applicable to Muslims. But Supreme court of India in recently in 3 Bench Judgment  dated 19th Feb 2014 (WP 470/2005- Shabnam Hashmi vs. UOI & others)   had allowed such adoption under Juvenile Justice Act and not under Personal law applicable. 

That since , the child have biological parents and is not destitute/orphan/child in need of care and protection- whether such adoption is permissible under JJ Act or otherwise?

If it is possible then whether rules regarding inheritance and others as applicable in personal law would be applicable in the present case or not ?

Kindly comment . 



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Adv k . mahesh (advocate)     25 April 2014

which state it is ....

tarun (Advocate)     26 April 2014

Its Punjab. 

T. Kalaiselvan, Advocate (Advocate)     27 April 2014

You can go ahead with the adoption and the registration of the deed, in case it  is not permitted, it will be rejected, so better initiate the process first.

S K KARNjhc (Legal Adviser)     08 May 2014

you have enough suggestion by my learned advocate, following accordingly.

Lawyer SALEEMA KABEER (Advocate Madras High Court & Legal Consultant Chennai Law in Law Firm. +91-9698884779)     17 May 2014

As you rightly said, the adoption under JJ act alone is permissible and applicable to muslims. There is no need to say that the adoption of muslim from biological parents is not yet recognized by law since it comes under their personal law.


Therefore, if any adoption is done by a muslim from the biological parents of a child (in other words, adoption made by a muslim out of the purview of JJ Act), no doubt, such adoption is not legally valid and so the law of inheritance or other provisions of personal law  will not applicable.


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