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NEW DELHI: Nearly 3,000 missing children have been traced in four days, thanks to the facial recognition system (FRS) software that the Delhi Police is using on a trial basis to track down such children.

The identities of the missing children have been established and efforts are on to help them reunite with their families.

The Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD), in an affidavit to the high court, said that the Delhi Police, on a trial basis, used the FRS on 45,000 children living in different children's homes. Of them, 2,930 children could be recognised between April 6 and April 10.

Arrest Telangana native for procuring infants and supplying them to accused Habib

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VASCO: The case of kidnapping, torture and assault on eight minor girls in which the Vasco police have arrested a 65-year-old woman Venus Habib, a resident of Baina, took an interesting turn as Vasco police now suspect child adoption network. On Friday, police arrested a Telangana native for his involvement in procuring infants and supplying them to main accused Venus Habib.

It may be recalled that following complaint from NGO Childline, the Vasco police recently raided a flat at Baina and rescued eight minor girls, aged between 11 and 12 and arrested Habib on the charges of kidnapping, torture and assault on the girls.

“Since we wanted to know the source from where the accused lady had adopted the minor girls, a police team led by PSI Diago Gracious rushed to Telangana to find out more about the story behind the 8 ‘adopted’ girls who became the alleged abuse victims of Venus Habib. After a detailed inquiry, the police team managed to arrest one Pathlot Thakaria (60), a native of Telangana, and brought him to the Vasco police station on Friday. We later produced him before JMFC Vasco and the court remanded him in police custody for seven days,” Vasco PI Nolasco Raposo said.

Mangaluru, Apr 18: Forty years ago on March 1, 1978, a baby girl barely 1.5 years old was found alone at Victoria Station, today known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus Railway station in Mumbai. She was found by the police and taken to an observation home and later to an orphanage and eventually was adopted in 1979, by a Dutch couple from Netherlands. She was named Mirjam Bina, who grew up to have a good childhood, education, job and is happily married with two kids. Yet, there is a void in Mirjam who is yearning to know her origin and who her biological parents are.

Thanks to the advancement in science, Mirjam underwent a genetic test which revealed that her ancestry is Mangalurean Catholic. With this being the only clue or 'shot in the dark’, as she calls it, she hopes to trace her family.

On March 1, 2018, 40 years after she was found at Victoria Station, Mirjam put up a post on social media. She also contacted Daijiworld on advice from friends.

Mirjam shares her story with Daijiworld and says she is not sure if she was abandoned or lost and has no memories of early childhood as she was very young. However, she has always been interested to know about her roots and her biological family.

In the year 1998, Mirjam visited India for the first time after being adopted and visited Shree Manav Seva Sangh where she had stayed for a year before being adopted. However, the orphanage said they did not maintain any information pertaining to her biological family and Mirjam decided not to continue with the search.

A bombshell report by the Chilean judiciary has revealed that hundreds of children illegally adopted by foreigners during the Pinochet dictatorship were sent to the US. A judge overseeing the probe called it “kidnapping.”

Judge Mario Carroza’s report, released Sunday, followed a probe into 579 adoptions between 1950 and 2001, 488 of those during the 1973-1990 dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. Of those, 525 were adopted by foreign families, and 432 went to the US. Calling the practice “kidnapping” and a “crime against humanity,” Carroza pointed out that Chile had no legal mechanism for overseas adoption until 1988.

Files on the 579 children of “vulnerable” mothers were discovered at the home of 96-year-old social worker Telma Uribe, who played a key role in the “irregular” adoptions according to Carroza. Mothers in financial hardship were paid to transfer their newborns to the legal guardianship of agencies. They were then “handed over” to families abroad.

Chilean Judge Mario Carroza is pictured out his office during a break in interrogation of former military officers at a court in Santiago, July 23, 2015. © Reuters / © Ivan Alvarado

The American Adoption Agency is linked to 206 of the cases; the Evangelical Adoption and Family Service to 22; the New York Study Service to 11; International Adoptions, Inc. to four; Catholic Charities of Richmond to three; Today’s Family, Inc. to three; and Homestudies, Inc. to two.

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At least eight girls were found confined in a flat in Goa's Vasco city, where they were allegedly subjected to torture, including branding them with a hot knife, police said today.

The girls, all in the age group of six to 12 years, were also allegedly beaten up with a pipe by a 65-year-old woman who claimed to have adopted them, Vasco police station inspector Nolasco Raposo said.

The police had yesterday rescued the girls from the flat, located in the Baina locality of the city, with the help of an NGO and arrested the woman, identified as Venus Habib.

Child trafficking racket busted

Seven held in Chennai, one in the U.K., for trafficking to Europe and the U.S.

The Chennai city police have busted a human trafficking racket run out of Chennai and Delhi airports. A woman passenger who is suspected to have indulged in the crime seven times using Indian passports has been arrested. The connivance of some immigration officers is suspected.

The breakthrough followed an input from the Foreigners’ Regional Registration office, Chennai.

The matter came to light a week ago when A.K. Singh, Assistant Foreigners’ Regional Registration Officer, received an input about Haru Manju Datta, who was bound for the United Kingdom accompanied by a person who was under 18 years, impersonating her own son, also bound for the U.K., through the Chennai international airport.

CHENNAI: Adoption is the most beautiful solution for childless couples, single people and also homeless children as it enables a parent-child relationship to be established between persons who are not biologically related. But it would be totally different and would shatter a woman if she is forced to part with her child, the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has held.

“To part a woman from her child in a violent manner is a most dangerous step to take. It will so unstabilise her that she may emerge from the shattering experience as an entirely different personality,” a Division Bench of Justices S Vimala and T Krishnavalli observed, while ordering the restoration of a 15-year-old girl with her biological mother and a 25-year-old man with his biological father in two separate cases.

The Bench was disposing of two habeas corpus writ petitions – one from a woman seeking her daughter and the other from a man praying for the return of his son. They contended that their consent was not taken for the surrender of the children and that the implication of the surrender was not explained to them. They reclaimed their daughter and son from the respective Child Welfare Committees (CWCs).

The CWCs submitted that counselling was given before the surrender regarding its implication.

However, the mother said she gave the child to the committee only with a view of taking back her once the problems are settled. She never intended to give the child in adoption.“The anxiety in the eyes of the mother with incessant tears and the longing cannot be answered in the negative,” the Bench said.