Grandmother’s investigation plea against Preet Mandir dismissed

Date: 2012-01-05

Asseem Shaikh TNN

Pune: A special court’s refusal on Tuesday to issue direction to the Central Bureau of Investigation to further probe into the inter-country adoption racket, involving the city-based Preet Mandir, has left a 70-year-old woman distressed in her fight against the adoption centre to get back her two granddaughters.

Kisabai Tulsiram Lokhande, a resident of Khandala in Satara district, had handed over her granddaughters — Komal and Ashwini — to an observation home at Karad for taking care and providing education, following the death of their parents in 2004-05. However, the Satara child welfare committee without taking Lokhande’s consent shifted the girls to Preet Mandir for rehabilitation. (more…)

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BETTER STAY AWAY FROM PREETMANDIR, Mr BHASIN

Date:  2011-10-19
Kaumudi Gurjar
Special CBI judge takes serious note of MiD DAY expose, tells Preetmandir former managing trustee J S Bhasin not to violate court order again by entering orphanage premises
LESS than four months since a MiD DAY sting operation at the Preetmandir orphanage showed former managing trustee J S Bhasin violating a court order that had restrained him from entering the Preetmandir premises, Special CBI Judge D R Mahajan took serious note of the MiD DAY expose and warned Bhasin against repeating the act.
It may be recalled that even as the Preetmandir controversy over allegations of financial irregularities and child trafficking was raging and the case was being heard in courtrooms, MiD DAY had found Bhasin in the office of the adoption home. (more…)
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Grandmother Kisabai Lokhande

Grandmother Kisabai Lokhande placed her two grandchildren in Boarding School (for temporary care, education and protection) in the Observation Home Satara. From there girls were transferred to the orphanage Preet Mandir Pune These two grandchildren were without Grandmother’s consent given to adoptive parents in Spain, through 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 Courts. Now a SLP(Cri) has been filed by the Grandmother in Supreme Court of India.

If you would like to support this grandmother’s case:


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“Yo quería que estudiaran, no darlas en adopción”

Las niñas fueron declaradas en situación de abandono y poco después enviadas a España

En 2008, la Comunidad de Madrid le retiró a Niños sin Fronteras la licencia para tramitar adopciones con Nepal
La policía india investiga al jefe de Preet Mandir y a las autoridades locales por varios delitos, entre ellos el secuestro de menores

14.06.2010 · Luna Bolívar

Kisabai Lokhande vende verduras en Karad, en el Estado indio de Maharashtra. (ATC)Kisabai Lokhande tiene más de 60 años y ha perdido a dos de sus nietas, seguramente para siempre. En Karad, una ciudad de medio millón de habitantes situada en el oeste de la India, vende verduras en un puesto callejero.

(more…)

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Vegetable vendor’s plea moves apex court

Source: http://news.webindia123.com 
New Delhi |Monday, 2010 11:05:12 AM IST

The Supreme Court has sought the Maharashtra government’s response to a lawsuit filed by a vegetable vendor accusing a Pune-based private trust of selling her two granddaughters to a Spanish couple under the garb of adoption. (more…)

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Woman moves HC to get back grandkids

11 Apr 2009, 0154 hrs IST, Swati Deshpande, TNN
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MUMBAI: Kisabai Lokhande, a 66-year-old illiterate woman from a Satara slum has filed a habeas corpus petition in the Bombay high court to get  
back her two granddaughters who were given in an inter-country adoption and sent to Spain. (more…)

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Satara to Spain: Grandma wants adoption probed

Satara to Spain: Grandma wants adoption probed
Swati Deshpande , TNN, Feb 4, 2009, 04.43am IST

MUMBAI: Kisabai Lokhande, an illiterate vegetable vendor from Karad, has been fighting a lonely battle to get back her two granddaughters who went “missing” from a children’s remand home in Satara in 2004. In 2005, the girls were learnt to have been adopted by a Spanish couple. (more…)

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