Preet Mandir: Bombay HC tells CBI to file Report

Mumbai: The Bombay high court on Wednesday said the case against Preet Mandir adoption home in Pune was “serious” and sought a status report from the CBI.

Investigations made by the CBI, as written in an FIR lodged on May 12, showed that the agency had fraudulently given away children in foreign adoptions , and had set up a temporary shelter home for distressed women to procure children from unwed mothers. The centre demanded exorbitant amounts from adoptive parents.
Jamshed Mistry, advocate for Advait Foundation, an NGO, said,

“The court said the adoption centre should be under surveillance till the next date of hearing.”

The FIR said that “inquiry revealed that during the period 2005 to 2010, in as many as 70 instances, Preet Mandir received excess money in the form of donations by extortion from Indian parents, amounting to more than Rs50,000”.

The court was informed that despite these findings of the CBI, two 
adoptions have been carried out by the centre. Justices BH Marlapalle and Anoop Mohta will hear the case on June 16.