Parents Nagarani and Kathirvel

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. Furthermore, Kathirvel and Nagarani were condemned to pay the costs of the expert hired by the Court:  4.763 Euros (= 6,574 USD)

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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Request Indian parents for DNA testing rejected

Zwolle-Lelystad, March 7, 2011 – The Family Court of Zwolle-Lelystad has ruled on March 4 in the case of the Indian couple. 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.

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The Indian couple was robbed in 1999 of their son when he was two years old. He would be with the adoptive parents in the Netherlands. These adoptive parents would have adopted their son would in good faith and take care of the now 12-year-old boy since many years. (more…)

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Indian children stolen for adoption

Shaikh Azizur Rahman, Foreign Correspondent

  • Last Updated: June 28. 2010
Nagarani, with her husband and two children in the background, at their home in Pulianthope slum in Chennai. Their bid for a DNA test to confirm whether a boy adopted by a Dutch family is their son kidnapped 11 years ago was turned down. Shaikh Azizur Rahman / The National

CHENNAI, INDIA // When Nagarani and her husband, Kathirvel, reached the Netherlands from India this month, the couple believed they would be able to prove that a 12-year-old Dutch boy was their son Sathish, who had been stolen from their home in a Chennai slum 11 years ago. 

But a Dutch family court last week turned down the couple’s request for a DNA test on the adopted son of a Dutch ethnic Indian family, ruling that it risked inflicting severe emotional trauma to the minor. (more…)

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Continuation “DNA case” Indian couple

Zwolle-Lelystad, 23 June 2010 – Today, the three-judge family section of the District Court of Zwolle-Lelystad proceeded behind closed doors with the hearing of the request filed by the Indian couple in the “DNA case”. For further information about this case please be referred to the press releases issued by the court on 11 June and 15 June last.

Adoptive parents present
Today’s hearing was attended by the adoptive parents and their lawyers, the special curator of the child and the lawyer of the Indian couple. (more…)

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Continuation “DNA case” Indian couple

Zwolle-Lelystad, 23 June 2010 – Today, the three-judge family section of the District Court of Zwolle-Lelystad proceeded behind closed doors with the hearing of the request filed by the Indian couple in the “DNA case”. For further information about this case please be referred to the press releases issued by the court on 11 June and 15 June last. (more…)

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Indiase ouders ‘Rahul’ doen aangifte van kidnapping

De zaak rond het geroofde adoptiekind ‘Rahul’ krijgt een nieuwe wending: het Indiase echtpaar dat claimt dat ze de biologische ouders van de jongen zijn, stappen naar de politie om aangifte te doen van kidnapping.
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Chennai couple seek embassy help in fight over boy

Source:http://www1.lite.epaper.timesofindia.com

Chennai: The Netherlandsbased organisation Against Child Trafficking,which is helping Nagarani Kathirvel to fight the case,claiming that a 12-year-old boy is her son,wrote to the the ambassador to the Netherlands,Manbir Singh,and urged the Indian mission to take up the issue.
Kathirvel and Nagarani fear that their interests may not be given equal weight and request your Embassys urgent support in case a DNA testing would not be imposed by the Court.They are worried about the wellbeing of their child and request your urgent intervention to help them confirm their parenthood and to gain access to the child, said Arun Dohle,representing the organisation,in his letter written a day after the court session. (more…)

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Indian parents request DNA test to establish parenthood of stolen son

Zwolle-Lelystad, 11 June 2010 – On Tuesday 15 June 2010 the three-judge family division of the District Court of Zwolle-Lelystad will hear the case of an Indian couple who have filed a request for a DNA test. By means of the DNA test they want to establish that a boy adopted by a Dutch couple is their biological son. In addition to this,  the couple want information about the boy and contact with him.  The court has appointed a special curator to look after the boy’s interests.

Kidnapping
The request has been filed by an Indian couple whose son, who was not even 2 years old at the time, was stolen in 1999. 
There are reasons to suspect that he was stolen by a gang, then taken to an orphanage and, with false documents, given up for adoption to Dutch parents. The adoptive parents adopted their son in good faith and they have been taking care of the now 12-year-old boy for many years now. A criminal investigation has been conducted into the organisation that allegedly committed the above practices. (more…)

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Ouders eisen via DNA-test kind ’terug’

NEDERLAND 5 JUNI 2010 Iris Pronk
De uitvoering van een DNA-test in een laboratorium in Leiden. © ANP
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Indiase ouders eisen voor de rechter een DNA-test, om vast te stellen of hun geroofde zoon door Nederlandse ouders is geadopteerd. Zo ja, dan willen ze persoonlijk contact met hem. Het is voor het eerst dat biologische ouders uit een herkomstland in Nederland hun gelijk komen halen.

De rechtszaak dient op 15 juni in Lelystad en is aangespannen door mevrouw K. Nagarani en haar man E. Kathirvelu uit een sloppenwijk van de Indiase stad Chennai. Hun jongste kind ’Rahul’ werd ontvoerd in 1999 en is in 2002 – via een malafide weeshuis – vermoedelijk door een Nederlands echtpaar geadopteerd. Hij is nu twaalf jaar. De zaak kreeg in 2007 aandacht door tv-rubriek ’Netwerk’.

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Mother fights to meet son 11 years after his kidnap

This article was published on June 6th, in The Sunday Times.

An Indian mother faces a heart-wrenching court battle in Holland to gain access to her 12-year-old son, whom she alleges was kidnapped as a baby then adopted by an unsuspecting Dutch couple. (more…)

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