Supreme Court · 1984 INSC 26 · Decided 6 February 1984
Lakshmi Kant Pandey v. Union of India
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1984 INSC 26 · [1984] 2 S.C.R. 795
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 1171/1982
- Decided
- 6 February 1984
- Bench
- P.N. BHAGWATI, R.S. PATHAK, AMARENDRA NATH SEN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Criminal
Headnote
Adoption of Children bY foreigners-Intra-national adoptions-Normative and Procedurai safeguards to be insisted 'upon so far as a foreigner wishing to take A B a child in adoption, outlined-Constit,;t;on of India, 1950 Artie/es 15,24 and 39 C and Guardian and Wards Act (Act VIII of 1890), Section-~ a letter in public interest to the Court, complaining of mat-practices indulged in by social · organiSation and vnlunhiry agencies engaged in the work of offering Indian Children in adoption to foreign parents, the petitioner alleged that not only Indian Children of tender age are
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