Out of the list provided below, which is/are the requirement(s) of a valid adoption under the Hindu…

Only statements 1 and 3 state valid requirements. Section 6 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 requires that the person adopting has the capacity and the right to take in adoption, that the person giving has the capacity to do so, and that the person adopted is capable of being taken in adoption, so statement 2 is wrong. Sections 7 and 8 give the capacity to take in adoption only to a Hindu male or a Hindu female. Under section 11, where the adoptive parent and the child are of different sex, the adoptive parent must be at least twenty-one years older, not eighteen.