Case Law Analysis
|Delhi High Court
HAMA Adoption | CARA Must Issue Formal NOC for Relocation to Hague Countries; Support Letters Inadequate Under Articles 5 and 17 : Delhi HC
The Delhi High Court has ruled that CARA cannot substitute a No Objection Certificate with informal support letters when adoptive parents seek to relocate children adopted under HAMA to Hague Convention countries. This mandates strict compliance with international child protection standards, directly impacting thousands of intercountry adoption cases pending clearance.