COURT RESERVES PETITION ON ADOPTION HOMES

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Wednesday reserved its order on the plea of a woman, who claims to be late Sanjay Gandhi’s daughter, seeking registration of an FIR against two adoption homes here for allegedly destroying evidence and concealing the identity of her biological parents. Metropolitan magistrate Shefali Barnala Tandon is likely to decide in October the plea filed by Priya Singh Paul, who has sought a direction to the Delhi Police to probe the matter and find out about her biological parents. In the plea, Ms Paul has alleged that the adoption homes, through which she was given for adoption, had violated specific rules and provisions of adoption and concealed the identity of her biological parents from her. “The investigation be conducted and my biological parents be found and these agencies and the concerned officers be booked under relevant provisions of law for violating provisions of adoption rules and for destroying the evidence of my natural parents,” the complaint made by Ms Paul addressing the SHO, Civil Lines police station in central Delhi, said.