Which Section of Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 facilitates a guardian to give his ward in…

Section 9(4) authorises the guardian to give a child in adoption, with the court’s previous permission, where the specified circumstances affecting both parents or unknown parentage exist. Subsection (1) lists who may give a child; subsection (2) concerns the parents’ rights. The guardian’s particular enabling provision is subsection (4), supplemented by the welfare safeguards in subsection (5).