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Adoption Deed

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₹799 · GST included
Stamp duty
Chargeable as an Adoption Deed under the article for that instrument in Schedule 1-A to the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 as applicable to Punjab, and under the corresponding article in Schedule I to that Act as extended to the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
Registration
Not compulsorily registrable under section 17 of the Registration Act, 1908 — the Book 3 category in that section for "authorities to adopt" catches a document empowering a person to adopt in future, which this is not; this Deed instead records an adoption already completed.
Witnesses
No attesting witnesses are required by the Act itself, but the registering officer will expect the usual identifying witnesses at the Sub-Registrar's counter if this Deed is registered, and two witnesses who are not parties are recommended in any event, since an adoption deed is very often relied on years later to prove inheritance and succession rights.

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Also called

  • Deed of Adoption
  • Hindu Adoption Deed
  • Adoption Agreement
  • Registered Adoption Deed
  • गोद लेने का विलेख
  • दत्तक ग्रहण विलेख
  • दत्तक विलेख
  • ਗੋਦ ਲੈਣ ਦਾ ਦਸਤਾਵੇਜ਼

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A Hindu, Buddhist, Jain or Sikh family recording an adoption that has actually taken place — most often a relative adoption, such as taking a brother's or sister's child, or the child of another close relation known to the family — where the biological parents, or the surviving parent or guardian lawfully entitled to do so, have given the child and the adoptive parent or parents have taken the child in adoption. This Deed records that ceremony under the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 ("the Act") and, once registered, gives the adoption the benefit of the presumption of validity in section 16 of the Act. Not for an adoption of a child in need of care and protection — an orphaned, abandoned or surrendered child placed through a Specialised Adoption Agency and the Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA) under the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015. That adoption is concluded by an adoption order of a court, not by a private deed, and this template does not cover it — use it only where the child has come to the adoptive family directly, with the consent described in this Deed, and not through an adoption agency. Not for a family governed by Muslim, Christian, Parsi or Jewish personal law, none of which recognises adoption in the way Hindu law does; those families arrange long-term care of a child through guardianship under the Guardians and Wards Act, 1890 instead, a different document. Not for an inter-country adoption, which is required to route through CARA regardless of the adoptive parents' religion.

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What follows is written for Punjab and Chandigarh. It states the position there rather than describing how it varies, so the amounts below are the ones that apply — worth confirming at the sub-registrar’s office, because rates change. If the property is anywhere else in India, none of this is yours.

Stamp duty

Chargeable as an Adoption Deed under the article for that instrument in Schedule 1-A to the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 as applicable to Punjab, and under the corresponding article in Schedule I to that Act as extended to the Union Territory of Chandigarh. Neither department publishes a single easily citable, dated rate for this specific instrument; confirm the current amount with a stamp vendor, the Treasury, or the office of the Collector before this Deed is executed, and buy non-judicial stamp paper of that value or e-stamp it through the Stock Holding Corporation of India Limited (SHCIL, shcilestamp.com), the authorised e-stamping agency for both Punjab and Chandigarh.

Registration

Not compulsorily registrable under section 17 of the Registration Act, 1908 — the Book 3 category in that section for "authorities to adopt" catches a document empowering a person to adopt in future, which this is not; this Deed instead records an adoption already completed. Registration is nonetheless strongly recommended: section 16 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 gives a document registered under any law in force, purporting to record an adoption and signed by the persons giving and taking the child, the benefit of a presumption that the adoption was validly made, which a court accepts unless it is disproved. Present it as a Book 4 miscellaneous document at the office of the Sub-Registrar of the tehsil in Punjab, or the Sub-Registrar, Union Territory of Chandigarh at 30 Bays Building.

Notarisation

Not a substitute for registration and not itself required by the Act, whose essential requirement is the actual ceremony of giving and taking the child recorded in Recital E — but having the signatures on this Deed notarised or attested before an Oath Commissioner, in addition to registering it, adds a further layer of evidence and is commonly done alongside registration.

Witnesses

No attesting witnesses are required by the Act itself, but the registering officer will expect the usual identifying witnesses at the Sub-Registrar's counter if this Deed is registered, and two witnesses who are not parties are recommended in any event, since an adoption deed is very often relied on years later to prove inheritance and succession rights.

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ADOPTION DEED

This Deed of Adoption (this "Deed") is made at Chandigarh on 2 April 2026.

BETWEEN

Rajesh Kumar Sharma, of House No. 601, Sector 40-B, Chandigarh 160036, and Sunita Sharma, of House No. 601, Sector 40-B, Chandigarh 160036 (together the "Adoptive Parents", which expression, where the context so requires, includes either of them acting alone),

AND

The person or persons giving the Child in adoption, described in Recital D below (the "Persons Giving in Adoption").

RECITALS

A. The Child is being adopted jointly by both spouses named below, as husband and wife. The Adoptive Parents are Hindus by religion, and are governed by the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 ("the Act") within the meaning of section 2 of that Act.

B. Aarav Kumar, a son, born on 1 April 2026, is the child being given and taken in adoption by this Deed (the "Child"). The Child is a relative of the Adoptive Parents, being connected to them as stated below.

The relationship is: The Child is the son of the Adoptive Father's sister.

C. The Child has not completed the age of fifteen years and is unmarried, as section 10 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 ordinarily requires.

D. Both biological parents of the Child are living and join in giving the Child in adoption, and both execute this Deed.

Biological father: Suresh Kumar, of House No. 14, Model Gram, Ludhiana 141002.

Biological mother: Kavita Kumar, of House No. 14, Model Gram, Ludhiana 141002.

E. The Child has actually been given by the Persons Giving in Adoption and taken by the Adoptive Parents in adoption, on 3 April 2026 at Chandigarh, with intent to transfer the Child from the family of the Child's birth to the family of the Adoptive Parents, which act of giving and taking has in fact been performed within the meaning of section 6(iv) of the Act.

Questions about this document

Does the Adoption Deed need stamp paper or stamp duty in Punjab and Chandigarh?

Chargeable as an Adoption Deed under the article for that instrument in Schedule 1-A to the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 as applicable to Punjab, and under the corresponding article in Schedule I to that Act as extended to the Union Territory of Chandigarh. Neither department publishes a single easily citable, dated rate for this specific instrument; confirm the current amount with a stamp vendor, the Treasury, or the office of the Collector before this Deed is executed, and buy non-judicial stamp paper of that value or e-stamp it through the Stock Holding Corporation of India Limited (SHCIL, shcilestamp.com), the authorised e-stamping agency for both Punjab and Chandigarh.

Does the Adoption Deed need registration in Punjab and Chandigarh?

Not compulsorily registrable under section 17 of the Registration Act, 1908 — the Book 3 category in that section for "authorities to adopt" catches a document empowering a person to adopt in future, which this is not; this Deed instead records an adoption already completed. Registration is nonetheless strongly recommended: section 16 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 gives a document registered under any law in force, purporting to record an adoption and signed by the persons giving and taking the child, the benefit of a presumption that the adoption was validly made, which a court accepts unless it is disproved. Present it as a Book 4 miscellaneous document at the office of the Sub-Registrar of the tehsil in Punjab, or the Sub-Registrar, Union Territory of Chandigarh at 30 Bays Building.

What does the Adoption Deed cost on Kaagazaat?

₹799, GST included.

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Does the Adoption Deed need witnesses?

No attesting witnesses are required by the Act itself, but the registering officer will expect the usual identifying witnesses at the Sub-Registrar's counter if this Deed is registered, and two witnesses who are not parties are recommended in any event, since an adoption deed is very often relied on years later to prove inheritance and succession rights.

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