new delhi there can be no greater imaginable tragedy in the world than of a child who is orphaned or abandoned the delhi high court noted on friday directing authorities to fasttrack legal formalities relating to intercountry adoption of a minor girl with special needs who was found abandoned in october 2019 in a cremation groundthe high court said the bonds of family are not forged merely by blood but bonded by the love and care which is extended to those around us and observed that the child must be placed in the warmth of a loving family and a home enabling her to find her place in the world in the years to comethe court shudders at even imagining the first waking hours of child s as she entered this world her fate thus cannot be left to the vagaries of litigation or to competing forces which seek to stake a claim upon her very existence and life her body and soulthe process of adoption has stretched over three years already it is thus imperative that she be placed in the warmth of a loving family a home and a hearth enabling her to find her place in the world in the years to come justice yashwant varma saidthe high court said an orphaned or abandoned child impacts the very foundation of civilised society and shakes the core of our conscience it added there perhaps can be no greater imaginable tragedy in the world than of a child who is orphaned or abandonedit allowed the plea by a foreign couple who were earlier granted a noobjection certificate noc from the central adoption resource authority cara for adoption of the child who was housed in an orphanage in uttar pradeshs bareilly for over two years before she was matched for adoption however before the adoption could be finalised it came under investigation after a complaint was made to the national commission for protection of child rights ncpcr alleging that the adoption in this case was illegal as it violated the priority principle which grants preference to indian parents over foreign parentssetting aside the central adoption resource authoritys august 10 communication justice varma directed it to take further steps to complete the process of adoption in accordance with the noc which was issued by the agency