Mumbai: The Bombay High Court has directed the CBI to investigate activities of Pune-based adoption Centre, Preet Mandir after a CNN-IBN Special Investigation blew the lid off the agency, whose owner J S Bhasin has broken every adoption rule in the land to sell babies illegally to foreign parents.
The High Court has asked the CBI to take tapes from CNN-IBN and file a case against the accused.
The investigation by CNN-IBN revealed a serious and a shocking adoption racket at Preet Mandir.
Before 2006, the law had put a ceiling of Rs 50,000 ($800) on the fee for a child. J S Bhasin was already charging $6000 then. Now the legal limit is $3,500 but Bhasin charges $12,000.
A document of the Pune Adoption Coordination Agency in CNN-IBN's possession, showed that six out of 10 children at Preet Mandir are adopted by foreigners.
Six CNN-IBN reporters conducted the investigation over six months in Pune, Maharashtra, Rourkela, Cochin and London.
Two CNN-IBN reporters posed as an NRI couple wanting to adopt a child. They landed up at Preet Mandir, where J S Bhasin has babies on offer—readymade and off the shelf.
What J S Bhasin does is a crime and the law calls such a person a child trafficker. Bhasin has been selling babies to foreigners for years, breaking every adoption law in the country. Preet Mandir is his baby shop.
The CNN-IBN investigation found that Bhasin runs a countrywide network to source unwanted babies and he may be even stealing them. The babies come from hapless unwed mothers, and he always makes sure he gets the babies cheap.
Bhasin then sells them to uninformed foreigners, often for as much as Rs 5.5 lakh per baby.
Six years ago, Bhasin's license was revoked when he defrauded a foreigner. However, he was back in business within two months.
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