In the communist state of Kerala that boasts of equality, a 23-year-old woman by the name of Anupama S Chandran had alleged that her parents gave away her 1-year-old child without her consent for adoption as the biological father is a Dalit Christian.
This alleged forced adoption case has turned into a major political problem for Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan who always harps about equality in his state.
As per reports, the father of the child is a ‘Dalit-Christian’ named Ajith and Anupama claimed that her parents were against her marriage to Ajith due to their prejudice against Dalits.
However, the girl’s parents were against this relationship because Ajith was already married at that time and was yet to get divorced from his estranged wife. After the child was born out of wedlock, it became a serious issue between Anupama and her parents.
The woman alleged that her father S Jayachandran had handed over her son who was born in October 2020, to an orphanage run by Kerala State Council for Child Welfare in Thiruvananthapuram.
Anupama then made a serious charge and claimed that the orphanage bypassed adoption rules and gave away her child to foster parents in Andhra Pradesh in August this year, without seeking her consent.
The whole incident came into the limelight on October 20, 2021, when Anupama filed a complaint with the police and a First Information Report (FIR) was registered in the case and 6 people, including the girl’s parents, were booked by the cops.
However, Anupama’s father has claimed that she had signed on stamp paper confirming the same but the mother refuted the claims and said that she was forced to sign under duress.
Now the quasi-judicial body, the Kerala Child Welfare Committee (KCWC) has directed authorities to produce the ‘adopted child’ within 5 days and a DNA test will be done to determine the biological parents.
The problem is now political in nature because Jayachandran is a senior leader CITU, the trade union wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the daughter Anupama was also a former leader of the Students’ Federation of India, the student wing of the Communist Party and the father of her child, Ajith, is also associated with the CPIM.
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