Indian child gets Spanish mother as court gives nod

A Spanish woman has been allowed by a Delhi court to adopt a five-year-old boy who was found abandoned at a railway station here. The court said it would be in the interest of the minor boy’s welfare that he be given into adoption to the Barcelona- based woman as she has undertaken to look after him in the best possible manner. District Judge Anu Malhotra allowed the petition of SOS Children’s Village of India, a charitable society, seeking that the minor be given in adoption to 46-year-old Natalia Folch Molero and she be allowed to take the child to Spain. “Taking into account fitness of respondent (Molero) and the factum that the child is still below the age of five years and it would be appropriate that an expeditious adoption is permitted so that he integrates into his new family, it is considered appropriate to allow the petition and the minor child is allowed to be given in adoption to respondent with directions to the respondent to comply with,” the court said.