Adoption by a make Hindu having a wife living at the time.

Where a male Hindu having a wife living adopts a child ,all the ties of the adopted child of his family of birth severed and replaced by those if the adaptive father s family.

Consequently the wife of the adoptive father stands in relation to the adoptee as the adoptive mother. The legal fiction stand raised is that of the adoptee child being born to the adoptive male Hindu and his wife at the time of adoption.

So, even in a case, where the male Hindu does not require the consent of his wife for adoption on her renouncing the world or ceasing to be a Hindu or becoming insane, yet such a wife shall stand in the relation of an adoptive mother to the adopted child.