Calcutta HC orders CWC to return 3-year-old to couple caring for him since birth

The Calcutta High Court has directed a Child Welfare Committee to return a three-year-old boy to the couple who have been raising him since his birth in February 2023. The court ruled that the CWC had no legal grounds to take custody of the child. It also noted that the child was neither an orphan nor abandoned, weakening the basis for state intervention. However, the couple has been instructed to approach a court to formally establish their legal adoptive status.