The department will probe into how the homeopath was able to fabricate adoption papers to run the hospital’s illegal operations.

We are investigating the matter further. He is a doctor of homoeopathy and his wife also works in the same hospital. (Representational image)

We are investigating the matter further. He is a doctor of homoeopathy and his wife also works in the same hospital. (Representational image)

Mumbai: The state women and child department has initiated a probe into the child trafficking racket where the Kolhapur police last week arrested homeopath Dr Arun Patil and his wife for allegedly selling infants to childless couples. According to the department’s district women and child officer (DWCO), it is investigating how Dr Patil was able to run a hospital without any authorisation for the past 25 years. The department will probe into how the homeopath was able to fabricate adoption papers to run the hospital’s illegal operations.

The homeopath was arrested after the DWCO received a tip-off from a couple and the Central Adoption Resources Authority (CARA), along with the police, busted the racket last Tuesday. Investigations by the women and child department and the police have revealed the existence of a joint bank account in the name of the mother of the child and Dr Patil. The account still has Rs 2 lakh paid for the child to the mother.

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RAMPUR: After seeing pictures of an adorable six-month-old abandoned baby girl, who was found in a garbage bin on Moradabad-Agra highway on Friday morning, hundreds of couples on Saturday approached police and the child welfare committee (CWC) with requests for adoption. Meanwhile, the local authorities have sent the baby to an orphanage and have said that they will first try to locate her biological parents. The abandoned child's pictures were published in most newspapers and her story was widely circulated on social media.

On Saturday morning, scores of couples queued up outside the office of child welfare committee in Moradabad. These included residents of Bhikanpur-Kulwada village who had spotted and rescued the baby a day earlier.

"The woman who first spotted the child and fetched milk for her has been missing her terribly. She even went to the local police station to check on the baby girl. We all are hoping and praying that her parents are found and she goes back home," said Mehraj Hussain, a resident of Bhikanpur-Kulwada village

The Two Families Appear Before Authorities Probing The Doctor's Child Dealings, While The Adopted Children Are Kept In A Kolhapur-Based Shelter

Dr Arun Patil

Dr Arun Patil

Three days after Arun Bhupal Patil, a homeopathy doctor and his wife Ujjwala were arrested by the Kolhapur police for allegedly selling newborns born at the hospital Patil worked at, authorities have zeroed down on two families to that illegally adopted the children. They are from Mumbai and Nagpur.

The children, who were bought from their mothers for Rs 2 lakh, were sold for anywhere between Rs 8 lakh to Rs 10 lakh, depending on their gender, probe has revealed. One of the children, born to a widow, was given to a Mumbai-based doctor, while the other child, sent to Nagpur, was delivered by a 16-year-old girl.

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Wednesday declared a minor girl ‘free for adoption’, clearing the decks for a city-based couple to adopt the child. This comes after the couple was stuck in procedural glitches post the modifications in the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act.

A division bench of Justice Naresh Patil and Justice Nitin Sambre said, “We declare this two-and-a-half-year-old girl child free for adoption. She can now be adopted by foster parents, after following the due procedure of law, by making a proper plea in a competent court. We hope the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) cooperates with the foster parents and grant a no objection certificate to them.” Judges were hearing a writ petition moved by an Andheri-based NGO Shantighar Social Society, urging the court to declare the girl free for adoption.

According to the NGO, her biological mother had been to their shelter home when she was pregnant by six months. The mother wanted to abort her pregnancy, however, post to the NGO’s counselling, she decided to give birth to the child and hand over it for adoption. But post her delivery, she did not fill in the requisite form and since then has been untraceable. This acted as a hurdle for the couple in adopting the child as she was not declared free for adoption by her biological mother, which in turn compelled the NGO to move the HC.

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