Source: http://legallykidnapped.blogspot.com 20 August 2010 An HIV positive woman from Pune has approached the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), alleging that her 11-year-old child was given up for adoption from Preet Mandir even as she had not relinquished the child. The CWC will submitting the affidavit to the CBI for further investigation. The woman said she… Read more »
Category: Parents Assistance Project
Dutch teenagers reunite with mother in TN hamlet
Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com Dutch teenagers reunite with mother in TN hamlet Jaya Menon, TNN, Aug 20, 2010, 04.19am IST CHENNAI: “I am happy. I am with my real family now,” 18-year-old Miquel said on Thursday after an emotional reunion with his family in Kootapuli, a fishing hamlet near Kanyakumari. It’s a far cry from the beautiful… Read more »
Adoptive Parents Julia and Barry Rollings
Countries: India, Australia Adoption Agency: Madras Social Service Guild Orphanage (MASOS) In mid-1997 the Indian adoption agency MASOS told the Rollings that a three-year-old boy and his two-year-old sister were put up for adoption five months earlier, in October 1996, as their ‘terminally ill parents’ were unable to take care of them. Eight years later… Read more »
Dutch teens arrive for reunion with family
Source: http://epaper.timesofindia.com Frontpage Chennai Edition 19.08.2010 Illegal Adoption Landed Them In Netherlands 14 Years Ago Jaya Menon | TNN Kanyakumari: A strong sea breeze whips through Kootupuli, a hamlet dotted with windmills and new houses built post-tsunami. There is much excitement in a cramped, brightly-painted house in the colony over a reunion. This is where two Dutch… Read more »
SC gets hold of ‘missing’ police report in Dohle case
Source: http://www.dnaindia.com Published: Friday, Aug 13, 2010, 3:51 IST By Rakesh Bhatnagar | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA Arun Dohle, an Indian adopted by a German couple 37 years ago, has disputed a police report which omitted the name of NCP leader Sharad Pawar’s brother, Pratap, as having any connection with him. Dohle has been… Read more »
CBI: Preet Mandir funds used to buy diamond necklace, pay hotel bills
Source: http://www.indianexpress.com 14 August 2010 The special court in Pune on Friday remanded Joginder Singh Bhasin, the managing trustee of Preet Mandir, in judicial custody. Additional sessions judge J D Kulkarni passed the order. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had arrested 71-year-old Bhasin on Monday in Belapur, Navi Mumbai, in connection with the adoption… Read more »
Adoption racket: managing trustee held
Source: http://www.indianexpress.com Posted: Wed Aug 11 2010 Preet mandir : Bhasin carged with forgery, kidnapping 1 The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Joginder Singh Bhasin (71), managing trustee of Preet Mandir, on Monday in Belapur and charged him with forgery, cheating, kidnapping and misappropriation of funds amounting to Rs 25.7 lakh.
German seeks Supreme Court help in locating biological Indian mother
Source: http://www.ndtv.com New Delhi: Thirty five years after he was adopted by a German couple, the Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to examine the plea of a man claiming to be the offspring of the brother of a union minister seeking a direction to help him locate his biological mother.
It happens only in India: An adoption record in five lines
Source: http://www.dnaindia.com The 5-year-old record of the inter-country adoption of Daksha Van Dijck, which the Bombay high court had directed its registry to trace, turned out to be four-five handwritten lines in the registry’s record.
Have mercy on a father, Madge
Source: http://www.timeslive.co.za Aug 8, 2010 12:00 AM | By BONGANI MTHETHWA Malawian dad of Madonna’s adopted child wants to see her SAVING UP: James Kambewa hopes to get enough money to visit his daughter in London ‘I think about her every day. Having a baby is a blessing. So I go through the emotional pain of… Read more »
