Hyderabad, Nov. 5 -- The Telangana government has moved a division bench of the High Court against a single judge's order that handed a three-year-old boy back to a couple claiming to be his adoptive parents, saying the adoption itself is disputed and is entangled in an illegal adoption investigation in Jagtial district.

According to The Times of India, a bench of Acting Chief Justice P Sam Koshy and Justice Suddala Chalapathi Rao heard the state's appeal on Wednesday, November 4. It adjourned the matter to Wednesday, November 18.

The state said that the single judge restored custody before the adoption's legality was examined. It argued that the validity of the adoption must be tested in accordance with law before the child can be retu...