Dasanglu Pul v. the Union of India and 5 Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Child custody of abandoned infant retained by fit-person petitioner; CARA letter challenged; adoption without CARINGS seniority sought under JJ Act 2015 S.3 and Adoption Regulation 2017 S.3(a),(b); welfare/betterment of child paramount; lapse of over six years treated as exceptional circumstance; Article 226 jurisdiction; order expressly non-precedential. Keywords: abandoned child; fit person; custody; CARA; CARINGS; SAA Roing; CWC Tezu/Lohit; DCPU report; WP(C) 286/2020; Gauhati High Court Itanagar Bench; Arunachal Pradesh; Dasanglu Pul; baby girl Tushala; exceptional circumstance; non-precedent.
What did the court decide?
Writ petition allowed: as an exceptional circumstance, no further action is required by the authorities to take back custody of the child from the petitioner; the order is confined to the peculiar facts, passed under Article 226, and declared non-precedential.