Taking the child to Andhra Pradesh was a conspiracy in the knowledge of the Chief Minister: VD Satisan
Kollam:
The opposition Congress in Kerala on Wednesday accused Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of “conspiracy” to facilitate the “smuggling” of former SFI leader Anupama Chandran’s child into neighboring Andhra Pradesh in the name of adoption without her consent.
Attacking the CPI(M)-led government and the party leadership over the issue, Leader of Opposition in the state assembly VD Satheesan alleged that the Chief Minister was using silence as his weapon these days to avoid commenting on controversial issues. . , in particular they include.
Her statement came a day after DNA test reports confirmed that Anupama Chandran and her husband Ajith were the biological parents of the child, whose adoption sparked a controversy in the southern state.
The Kerala State Child Welfare Council (KSCCW), headed by the Chief Minister, and the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) had put the child up for adoption and transferred him, despite learning that the infant’s mother was looking for him. Another state, he alleged.
“The transfer of the child to Andhra Pradesh was a conspiracy in the knowledge of the Chief Minister, his cabinet colleagues, the CPI(M) secretary and other leaders. In fact it is a case of deliberate human trafficking,” he told reporters. Kollam.
The leader said the country has strict rules and regulations for child adoption, but the state agency has violated all procedures in the case of Ms Chandran’s child from the very beginning.
Listing out the various “errors” committed by the KSCW and CWC, the Congress leader also alleged that the agencies had earlier conducted DNA tests of another child and even to mislead the woman and hide the matter. The wrong gender was also mentioned in the record.
Officials have informed the couple that the DNA test of the child and the couple at the Rajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology (RGCB) has come back positive.
After receiving the information about the result, the couple went to see the child at Nirmala Shishu Bhavan under the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) here.
The one-year-old boy was in the care of a couple in Andhra Pradesh and was brought back here on Sunday.
On 18 November, the CWC issued an order directing the KSCCW to bring the child back to Kerala.
A team led by KSCCW officials and an escort of a special juvenile police unit on Saturday received the child from the adoptive parents in Andhra Pradesh and brought him to Kerala.
Anupama Chandran (22) and her partner Ajith have been demanding their child back in front of the KSCCW office in Thycaud, Kollam for a few days now.
The woman alleges that her child was forcibly snatched from her by her father, a local CPI(M) leader, triggering a political controversy following which the government ordered a departmental inquiry into the incident.
Anupama had accused her parents of forcibly taking away her newborn child from her soon after her birth a year ago and alleged that though she had complained to the police several times since April, they were not at the mercy of her family. He was reluctant to register a case against him. Member
However, Perurkkada police here said that a case was registered against six persons against her parents, sister, sister’s husband and two friends of her father and the delay was because they were waiting for legal opinion.
Last month, a family court had stayed the adoption process of the child and directed the police to submit a detailed report in the matter.
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