NEW DELHI: Women and Child Development minister Maneka Gandhihas asked the Indian ambassador in Spain to take necessary steps to send back an Indian girl who was abandoned by her foster parents there.

She said the ministry is in the process of fixing responsibility for the “lapses” on the part of the child care institution from where she was adopted.

She was reacting to a TOI report which highlighted that a 13-year old girl from Bhopal , adopted by a Spanish couple in January, had been abandoned in a protection home in Madrid after they learnt that she is a teenager and not 7 years old as they were told by the child care institution at the time of adoption.

The Madhya Pradesh Commission for Protection of Child Rights has initiated an inquiry and sought the adoption papers from Central Adoption and Resource Agency.

Maneka has asked Indian ambassador to Spain D B Venkatesh Varma to contact the girl immediately. “ It has been ascertained that the girl wants to return to India. I request you to take necessary steps to send

