By SUNIL Sonkar

New Delhi, September 08 — Supreme Court permitted an American couple in the city on Wednesday to adopt a slow-learner child Anil after the confirmation from expert committee of doctors that the prospective parents were eminently suitable for adoption.

According to the expert committee, the couple, Craig Lallen Coates and Cynthia Ann Coates, were economically and financially sounds and Anil would be comfortable with the prospective parents.

The expert committee was appointed after a suggestion was submitted to the court by solicitor general and amicus curae Gopal Subramanium in the course of August 30 hearing.

The committee said to the apex court bench of Justice Markandey Katju and Justice T.S. Thakur that the prospective parnets were completely aware of what the family required for the upbringing of the child.

It also noted that Cynthia Ann Coates was suitable for the upbringing of Anil because her husband Craig Lallen Coates is also a slow-learner by birth and she knew it before their marriage. The committee said she took good care of her husband.