The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956
No adoption which has been validly made can be cancelled by the adoptive father or mother or any other person, nor can the adopted child renounce his or her status as such and return to the family of his or her birth.
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Official India Code text: The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, English PDF (bitstream 123456789/1638/1/AA1956____78.pdf, 146,411 bytes, sha256 5503d94a84375aba...) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-08-03. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and the @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Automated parse; footnotes and amendment history excluded. Spot-verified against the PDF; full clause-level proofread pending.
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