Under the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, a Hindu married woman of 32 years of age adopts a…

Under Section 8 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, as amended in 2010, a married Hindu woman may adopt with her husband's consent, and Section 11 requires a twenty-one-year age gap between an adoptive mother and a male child adopted; since the age difference here is twenty-four years, the adoption is valid.