Board looks at Indian adoptions again

The Danish Family Agency is not immediately prepared to take a decision on whether adoptions from India should again be closed, as DF demands. The board will first see the new information from the Indian police.

The Family Agency will look at the new information from India before deciding whether to close adoptions from the country.

This throws couples who are on a waiting list or who have adopted children from India into uncertainty.

Following new information from the federal police in India, which reveals corruption far up in the Indian adoption authorities, the Danish People's Party has demanded that adoption from the country be closed.

Fooled children from a single father

SF, K and S also require a thorough examination of the Indian adoption market.

21 Søndag revealed last night that Indian police believe that an orphanage in India has tricked children from an Indian single father, after which the children were adopted to Denmark.

The case was brought forward in 2007, and then the Family Agency suspended all Indian adoptions while the case was investigated. Indian police then concluded that the Indian father, Ramesh Kulkarni, had himself agreed to the adoption.

Now Indian police back him up that he was robbed of his children.

Interrupted the collaboration in 2003

It was the organization AC Børnehjælp that brought the children to a Danish couple. As early as 2003, the organization broke off cooperation with the orphanage, which mediated the adoption of Ramesh Kulkarni's children.

Right now, AC Children's Aid has five parent couples on the waiting list for children from India.

To the question of the reasonableness of an immediate stop to Indian adoptions, which DF wants, says director Jonas Parello-Plesner.

- That is something the Ministry of Justice decides. We are talking about an ongoing legal case against a business partner in Inden, with whom we broke off cooperation already in 2003, because there were suspicions about the conditions. It is therefore not illustrative of our current dissemination from India. We very much support a thorough investigation, which we have already asked the Ministry of Justice about, which was responsible for the most recent investigation into the case in 2007, but a stop now may not be the right course of action, but as I said, it is the Ministry of Justice's decision, he says .

A total of 24 Indian adopted children came to Denmark last year. In addition to AC Children's Aid, DanAdopt mediates children from India.