Under the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, in case of an abandoned child, giving and taking…

Section 11(vi) requires the child to be given and taken with intent to transfer it from the family of its birth "or in the case of an abandoned child or child whose parentage is not known, from the place or family where it has been brought up" to the family of its adoption. The guardian gives such a child with the court's previous permission under section 9(4).