Under the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 which of the following conditions must be complied…

Section 11 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 requires, among other conditions, that the same child not be adopted simultaneously by two or more persons (clause (v)) and that the child be actually given and taken in adoption with intent to transfer it from the family of its birth (clause (vi)), while Section 10 requires that the child has not already been adopted. Section 11 expressly declares that the performance of datta homam is not essential to the validity of an adoption, so the answer is "A, B, D only".