NEW DELHI: Voicing serious concern over a news report that claimed that in every eight minutes, a child goes missing in the country, the Supreme Court -- while hearing a petition filed by an NGO -- on Tuesday termed it as "serious issue."

"I have read in a newspaper that every eight minutes, a child goes missing in the country. I don't know if this is true or not. But this is a serious issue," Justice B V Nagarathna, who was heading the two-judge bench, observed orally on Tuesday.

The apex court comprising Justice R Mahadevan -- besides Justice Nagarathna -- made it clear during the hearing that the adoption process in the country is complicated and thereby it asked the Centre to make it simpler and to streamline the mechanism for an effective one. "The adoption process is rigorous, it

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