Vijay Chavan
Posted On Wednesday, March 09, 2011 at 06:03:07 AM
The Special Crime Branch of the CBI on Tuesday filed an 87-page chargesheet against six accused including trustees of Preet Mandir and then chairman of Child Adoption Resource Agency (CARA) for their alleged involvement in illegal child procurement racket and extorting money from the parents. (more…)
Published: Saturday, Feb 5, 2011, 10:11 IST
By Bhagyashree Kulthe | Place: Pune | Agency: DNA
A ray of hope has dawned upon a number of orphans in Preet Mandir, whose adoptions had been held up for the last one-and-a-half years. On Thursday, a 2-year-old girl was finally united with her South African adoptive parents, bringing joy all around.
This was the first adoption at Preet Mandir after the Bombay high court’s green signal to resume the process, which had been halted for many months following a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe against the adoption agency. (more…)
The president of an NGO called Sakhee on Wednesday allegedly received a threat call from a South African woman waiting to adopt a baby from city-based Preetmandir. The caller asked the social activist, Anjali Pawar, to discontinue her efforts to ensure an investigation into whether the children waiting for adoption at Preetmandir were indeed destitute.
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| Unpleasant experience: Anjali Pawar, president of NGO Sakhee, says she got the call on Wednesday evening |
Pawar said the woman who called from South Africa introduced herself as Linda Ganess and repeatedly made abusive remarks over the phone. The woman was upset over the fact that Pawar had demanded an inquiry into the destitute status of each and every one of the 17 children waiting for adoption at Preetmandir, which has been under a cloud for some months over its adoption system. (more…)
Online appeal in Italian on popular social networking site asks for donations of 1.5 euros to feed children in city orphanage.
If an appeal on a social networking website is successful, Italians will soon be pitching in to feed the 131 children housed at Preetmandir. (more…)
Fifteen days after the Bombay High Court passed an order directing Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA) to process the adoption applications of 18 children in Preet Mandir, voluntary organisations Sakhi and Advait Foundation have forwarded their objections to CARA. (more…)
Pune’s contentious adoption home Preet Mandir has challenged the revocation of its licence before the Bombay high court.
However, while the decision for the adoption centre may go either way, a one-year-old girl with special needs is being denied parental care as her adoption cannot be processed. (more…)
MUMBAI: The Central Adoption and Resource Agency (CARA), the governing agency that looks into the adoption process in India, filed an application before the Bombay HC on Monday, seeking permission to process the 17 pending cases of inter-country adoption. (more…)
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:
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 had given her child for institutional care and not adoption.
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 racket. Bhasin was booked under charges of forgery, cheating, kidnapping and misappropriation of funds amounting to Rs 25.7 lakh. The court had remanded him in police custody till Friday.
