Parents Nagarani and Kathirvel

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Countries: India, The Netherlands
Agencies:  Malaysian Social Services, Meiling

Nagarani and Kathrivel’s son was kidnapped during the night in Chennai, India. Five years later the kidnappers were arrested and they confessed that her son had been sold to an orphanage Malaysian Social Services Chennai and subsequently was given for adoption to adoptive parents in the Netherlands, through the mediation of a Dutch adoption agency.

ACT retraced the child in the Netherlands. The adoptive parents have so far refused to cooperate in DNA testing, to proof that the child is indeed Nagarani’s. ACT helped this Indian family to find a Dutch Attorney and to file a Court case in the Netherlands that took place in June 2010.

After two weeks, Nagarani and Kathirvel went back to India. Without even having met the adoptive parents, who did not appear in Court.

The Family Court of Zwolle-Lelystad has ruled on March 4 2011 in the case. The Indian couple’s request for a DNA test to determine that a boy adopted by Dutch parents is their biological son, was dismissed by the Court.

On 13 September 2012 the Dutch Appeal Court also dismished the Indian’s parent’s request.

ACT is working on further actions.

If you would like to support Nagarani and Kathirvel:

Or bankaccount:
Against Child Trafficking, the Netherlands
Bank Account 67 26 82 060
IBAN: NL41 INGB 0672 6820 60
BIC: INGBNL2A

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Adoption ‘Orphanage’ Preet Mandir

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Since last 10 years Preet Mandir has been under suspicion of sourcing children from poor families and selling children for intercountry adoptions.

Advait Foundation from Mumbai & Sakhee from Pune filed a Criminal Writ Petitions against Preet Mandir in Mumbai High Court and High Court recently ordered CBI to reinvestigate, as a previous investigation had proven to be faulty and incomplete.  The order of reinvestigation was challenged by Preet Mandir in the Supreme Court of India and the same was dismissed, precipitating in continuing the reinvestigation in unearthing the crimes committed by Preet Mandir.

On 7 March 2011 six persons were charged with criminal conspiracy for child trafficking.

The six accused are

  • former managing trustee of Preet Mandir Joginder Bhasin (72),
  • his wife Mahinder Bhasin (68),
  • son Gurpreet Singh (43),
  • Superintendent of Vasudev Babaji Navrange Balakashram of Pandharpur Vasudev Gangadhar Darshane (60),
  • social worker associated with Preetmandir’s Kalyaninagar unit Chandrashekar Admane (40) and
  • chairman of Child Adoption Resource Agency (CARA) Janindrakumar Mittal (55).

CHARGESHEET PREET MANDIR: AVAILABLE HERE

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Grandmother Kisabai Lokhande

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Grandmother Kisabai Lokhande placed her two grandchildren in for temporary care, education and protection in the Observation Home Satara (boarding school). From there the girls were transferred to the children home Preet Mandir in Pune.  From there the two grandchildren were, without their grandmother’s consent or knowledge, given to adoptive parents in Spain the mediation of a Spanish adoption agency.

ACT supported the grandmother in filing a Criminal Writ Petition against the State parties and Adoption Agency in the Indian Court. The Court dismissed it.

Following this, ACT supported the grandmother to file her case in the Indian Supreme Court.

 

 

Father: Ramesh Kulkarni

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Countries: India, Denmark
Agencies: Preet Mandir, AC International Child Support (AC Børnehjælp)

After the death of his wife, Ramesh Kulkarni placed his four children for temporary care and protection in Preet Mandir. When Kulkarni arrived to meet his children a few months after leaving them at Preet Mandir, he was able to meet only two. He was told the other two were in hospital, and was advised he should keep his visits to a minimum to avoid “disturbing” the children. Later, he said, his parents went to the orphanage to bring the children back but the agency demanded Rs 50,000 as the price for each child’s discharge.

Then it came out his four children were adopted by a Danish family.

The owners and social worker of Preet Mandir and the then Chairman of the Indian Central Authority were formally charged by the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on 7 March 2011 of having entered into a criminal conspiracy with as motive to send children into adoption and to extort huge money from the adoptive parents.

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Adoptee Jennifer Haynes

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Adoptee Jennifer Haynes was placed for temporary care and protection in an orphanage by her mother when she was 5 years old. Without her mother’s consent, in 1989, the Indian Courts orders were obtained by one Trust of a US adoption agency. She was abused by her adoptive father, and the adoption was ended.

She also got abused by the second adoptive family, after which she ended up in the US foster care system. After a conflict with the law she was convicted to jail. After finishing her jail term, the US deported her back to India as apparently her adoption though finalized; her US Citizenship was not processed by the American Adoption Agency (AIAA) through her Adoptive Parents. Jennifer has two children aged 5 & 6 (apparently US Citizens) who are living with her mother in law in the US. This being one of the worst punishment that a Human Being is made to suffer, that Jennifer, a Mother of 2 minor children cannot enter the country US, when her own minor children as US Citizens.

Jennifer’s papers are in possession of ACT. The research done by ACT, their Attorneys, it is evident that the Indian Authorities as well as the US Authorities have been unjust to Jennifer as well as her 2 minor kids, by mechanically deporting her from US and having accepted her in India as any ordinary illegal expatriate.

ACT is supporting Jennifer in Petitioning the Courts, against the Adoption Agencies in India and in the US as well as the Authorities. ACT with their expert Attorneys in India and US, in working out modalities seeking legal intervention and assistance finding ways to send Jennifer back to the US, reunite with her children and claim compensation and damages.

If you would like to support Jennifer’s case:


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Adoptee Anisha Mörtl

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Countries: India, Germany
Adoption Agencies: St. Theresa’s Tender Loving Care Home

Anisha was born in 1992 and was taken by the ‚Tender Loving Care Home‘, because her mother Fatima could not pay the hospital bill.   Sister Theresa then had her adopted by a German couple. Fathima did not see her child for the next 28 years.

ACT helped Anisha to retrace her mother.

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Madonna – Malawi

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In Spring 2009 ACT teamed up with Malawi’s Human Rights Consultative Committee (HRCC), a network of 80 locally-based civil rights organisations, and paid a lawyer to help preventing Madonna breaking Malawi’s adoption law.

Kairi Shepherd – at risk of deportation

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Countries: India, United States
Adoption Agencies: International Mission of Hope (IMH) and Americans for International Aid and Adoption (AIAA)

Kairi was adopted, at three months old, by an American woman. This adoptive mother died when Kairi was 8 years old.

Kairi was unaware that her adoptive mother had not finalised the procedures to get her US citizenship.

Kairi is now at risk of being deported back to India.

ACT is working tirelessly to prevent this deportation from happening.

Adoptee Arun Dohle

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Countries: India, Germany
Adoption Agency: Kusumabai Motichand Mahila Seva Gram (KMMSG)

Arun Dohle was adopted by a German couple in 1974.  He is searching his mother since 1993. As KMMSG refused access to his adoption file, he has petitioned the Indian courts.

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Mother Declah

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Countries: India, The Netherlands
Adoption agencies: Malaysian Social Services, Meiling

Declah placed her childen in an orphanage run by the Malaysian Social Service. The adoption agency assured her that it would educate the children and send them to her when they were 18 years old. She gave up four of her children. While two were returned to her, Melissa and James Kapil were put up for adoption abroad without her knowledge.

When a major scandal broke out in 2005, she learnt that the adoption agency had kidnapped and sold several children to couples abroad. Dekla immediately rushed to Chennai, but there was no trace of her children. Their foster parents had separated legally and Melissa and Miquel were placed in a government-run home in the Netherlands. 

ACT helped Declah to retrace her children.

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Adoptive Parents Julia and Barry Rollings

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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 the couple was stunned to read an internet article saying a member of the staff of Madras Social Service Guild Orphanage had been arrested on charges of kidnapping. „Early 2006 they heard that the director of the children’s orphanage of MASOS had been arrested in an unrelated case.

The Rollings have reconnected their adopted children with their mother.

ACT helped retrace the mother and assisted the Rollings in 2008  in filing a Writ Petition in the Indian Court.

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