Who is capable to give the child in adoption, under Section 9 of the Hindu Adoption and Maintenance…

Under Section 9(1) of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956, as amended in 2010, no person except the "Father or mother or the guardian" of a child has the capacity to give the child in adoption. The father and the mother have an equal right, though each needs the other's consent unless the other has completely and finally renounced the world, has ceased to be a Hindu or has been declared of unsound mind. A guardian may give the child in adoption only with the court's previous permission, in the situations described in Section 9(4).