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‘I want my kids back,’ father of three kids sent abroad after adoption writes to CWC
TNN | Mar 3, 2020, 04.05 AM IST
Bhopal: The father of the three children, who were sent abroad after adoption in late January, reached the Child Welfare Committee on Monday alongwith the children’s grandmother and gave an application to get his children back.
Speaking to TOI, the helpless father said, “I had gone into depression after my wife’s death, so my mother had to take the children to the shelter home as she was not able to take care of all of us. Had I been well, I would not have sent them anywhere and would have brought them up myself. They have now snatched my children away from me and sent them so far that we cannot even go and meet them.
“My mother used to visit them around 4 -5 times a year until 2018. Later, she was told that the children get distracted from studies on seeing her, so she should not come to meet them so often. Then when she went to the shelter home on February 22, she was told about the adoption. She told me the whole thing and as I was working out of station, I boarded a train and came back as soon as I could. Never in my dreams would have I thought of giving up my children,” he said.
The father also told CWC that he will file an FIR against all the parties involved in the adoption without his knowledge and consent.
Bhopal collector Tarun Pithode has asked the district programme officer (DPO) Brijesh Tripathi to collect all the documents needed to investigate the case.
“I have come to know that the children were made legally free for adoption three years ago and have asked the DPO for a detailed report of the case. We will investigate the case thoroughly and then take appropriate action accordingly,” said the collector.
CWC member Kripashankar Choubey, who met the father and grandmother of the three children on Monday, said, “As the case was under the former CWC, we are collecting all the documents regarding it. The father has given us an application to get his children back and once we have all the documents of the case, we will write to the WCD department to take action and do what is best for the children.”
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