ADOPTION DEED
This Deed of Adoption (this "Deed") is made at Chandigarh on 2 April 2026.
BETWEEN
Rajesh Kumar Sharma, of House No. 601, Sector 40-B, Chandigarh 160036, and Sunita Sharma, of House No. 601, Sector 40-B, Chandigarh 160036 (together the "Adoptive Parents", which expression, where the context so requires, includes either of them acting alone),
AND
The person or persons giving the Child in adoption, described in Recital D below (the "Persons Giving in Adoption").
RECITALS
A. The Child is being adopted jointly by both spouses named below, as husband and wife. The Adoptive Parents are Hindus by religion, and are governed by the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 ("the Act") within the meaning of section 2 of that Act.
B. Aarav Kumar, a son, born on 1 April 2026, is the child being given and taken in adoption by this Deed (the "Child"). The Child is a relative of the Adoptive Parents, being connected to them as stated below.
The relationship is: The Child is the son of the Adoptive Father's sister.
C. The Child has not completed the age of fifteen years and is unmarried, as section 10 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 ordinarily requires.
D. Both biological parents of the Child are living and join in giving the Child in adoption, and both execute this Deed.
Biological father: Suresh Kumar, of House No. 14, Model Gram, Ludhiana 141002.
Biological mother: Kavita Kumar, of House No. 14, Model Gram, Ludhiana 141002.
E. The Child has actually been given by the Persons Giving in Adoption and taken by the Adoptive Parents in adoption, on 2 April 2026 at Chandigarh, with intent to transfer the Child from the family of the Child's birth to the family of the Adoptive Parents, which act of giving and taking has in fact been performed within the meaning of section 6(iv) of the Act.
F. Each person executing this Deed does so voluntarily, understands the effect of adoption under the Act, and confirms that, to that person's knowledge, none of the conditions in sections 10 and 11 of the Act that would make this adoption void remains unsatisfied.
NOW THIS DEED WITNESSES as follows.
- 1. ADOPTION
1.1 The adoption of the Child by the Adoptive Parents recorded in Recital E is hereby confirmed and reduced to writing in this Deed, signed by the Persons Giving in Adoption and by the Adoptive Parents, for the purposes of section 16 of the Act.
1.2 From the date of adoption, the Child shall be known as Aarav Sharma.
- 2. EFFECT OF ADOPTION
2.1 From the date of adoption stated in Recital E, the Child shall, for all purposes, be deemed to be the child of the Adoptive Parents, and all ties of the Child in the family of the Child's birth shall be deemed to be severed and replaced by those created by the adoption in the adoptive family, as section 12 of the Act provides — save that the Child shall not marry any person whom the Child could not have married if the Child had continued in the family of the Child's birth, and any property that had vested in the Child before the adoption shall continue to vest in the Child, subject to the obligations, if any, attaching to it, including any obligation to maintain relatives in the family of the Child's birth.