KARINA JANE CREED Vs. UNION OF INDIA

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This special leave petition has been filed by the petitioner, an Australian citizen, challenging the final Judgment and order dated 28.05.2019 passed by the Division Bench of the Delhi High Court dismissing the Appeal, being LPA No. 351/2019 of Signature Not Verified the petitioner, against an order dated 10.5.2019 of the Judge dismissing the writ Petition being W.P. No. 3567 of 2019 filed by the petitioner for order on the Central Adoption Resource Authority (hereinafter referred to as "CARA") to issue a No Objection Certificate to the petitioner for adoption of two children aged 5 and 6 respectively.

(2.) The petitioner says that she has been residing in India for the last four years. In 2016, the petitioner applied to CARA for adoption of the two children. The application was registered and processed. The petitioner thereafter started visiting the children.

(3.) Both India and Australia are signatories to the Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Inter-Country Adoption held in Hague in 1993 (hereinafter referred to as "Hague Convention "). Article 5 of the Hague Convention provides:-