The Tardeo police has ruled out involvement of a Nanded-based adoption agency in an adoption racket.
The Tardeo police has ruled out involvement of a Nanded-based adoption agency in an adoption racket. The police, which on Monday started looking into the case of an 18-month-old baby adopted by a Tardeo family, said that the agency’s previous records of adoption were in order.
The social service branch started probing the case following an anonymous letter received by Police Commissioner, Datta Padsalgikar, regarding an illegal adoption. “We tracked down the family to Tardeo that had adopted the baby when he was 10 days old. When we enquired with them, we found that they did not have proper adoption papers and no proof of having adopted the baby from the said agency. Finding something amiss, we handed over the case to Tardeo police,” said an officer of the social service branch.
After investigating the case, the police on Monday arrested Satyashree Gutte (27), Director of Sunita Gutte Shishugrah, a Nanded-based adoption agency. They also arrested the parents Manvi Pawar and Mahesh Pawar along with two other family members Manjari Pawar and Deepak Salvi who visited the adoption centre.
Investigators said that records of other children adopted by other families through the agency were in order. A Tardeo police officer said, “It was only in the case of this baby that the adoption agency had failed to process papers. While the agency claims that they knew the adoptive family and hence, decided to delay the adoption documentation, the family alleges they were not informed at all about any registration that needed to be done.”