The Madhya Pradesh Protection for Child Rights Commission on Thursday initiated an inquiry into the reported abandonment of a 13-year-old girl adopted from Bhopal by a Spanish couple earlier this year.

Sources say the couple has written to Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA) that they were misled on the child’s age and she is 13-and-a-half years old, not seven as her papers said at the time of adoption. The teenager is now in a protection home in Spain, awaiting rescue by the women and child development ministry.

The Spanish couple had adopted the child from special adoption agency Udaan in Bhopal on January 1, 2018.

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