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Yasmin persuaded a reluctant Lakshmi to place her daughters in Agency for Social Improvement (ASI) in Hyderabad.

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Probably Action for Social Development  http://poundpuplegacy.org/node/28616

Together, Anjali, Sutara, and Kavita were transferred to the Paul Solomon Memorial Home (PSMH) in Vandanoor, a village several hours from Hyderabad.  This orphanage, which ran a school with boarding arrangements for impoverished families and also placed children, mostly infants and toddlers, for adoption, was run by Purva and her husband, Manu.

This orphanage too would eventually be implicated in the Hyderabad adoption scandals.  The Paul Solomon Memorial Home would be investigated and shut down in the 2001 scandal.  Manu would be arrested in both the 1999 and the 2001 scandals.  And finally, Purva would, in 2001, come under suspicion for baby buying and paperwork falsification.  Purva would even make national headlines in India, becoming a fugitive after neatly eluding the police who came to arrest her.

Probably John Abraham Memorial Bethany Home (JAMBH) in Tandur (around 100 km from Hyderabad)