India - Malaysian Social Services case

Incident date: 2008 Aug 23

Country: India

number of children involved: 165

placement

Persons:

Organizations: Stichting Meiling, Malaysian Social Services (MSS), Pauquette Children Services, Adoption Services Queensland

institution

Persons: Dinesh Kumar (Ravindranath), PV Ravindranath, Vatsala wife of PV Ravindranath

Organizations: Malaysian Social Services (MSS)

Ravindranath family

For years stolen children were processed through adoption agency and orphanage known as Malaysian Social Services, at Tiruverkadu in Chennai's northwest. MSS paid people to steal children, gave them new identities and placed them for adoption. As many as 165 stolen children may have been adopted by overseas parents, with 14 going to couples in Australia. See Individual cases:

Sateesh Kumar (Anbu Rohit Bisessar aka "Rahul") case
Subash (aka Ashraf) son of Sivagama and Nageshwar Rao case
Zabeen (aka Suji) daughter of Fatima and Sali case

Parent topics: child trafficking

Documents

Title	Publication date
Dragged to court, teens want to return to Netherlands	2010 Aug 26
Family's 14 year long trauma ends	2010 Aug 20
Dutch teenagers reunite with mother in TN hamlet	2010 Aug 20
Dutch teens arrive for reunion with family	2010 Aug 19
Statewide child trafficking ring busted, 4 held	2010 Jun 21
Mother fights to meet son 11 years after his kidnap	2010 Jun 6
Overseas Adoptions	2009 Mar 12
Meet the Parents: The Dark Side of Overseas Adoption	2009 Mar 9
INSIDE STORY OF AN ADOPTION SCANDAL	2008 Nov 1
Warning on suspect Indian adoption agency ignored	2008 Oct 3
Sold for £20: just two of India's million stolen children	2008 Sep 7
Australian gov't beefs up adoption monitoring	2008 Sep 3
Birth parents want to see 'trafficked' child	2008 Sep 3
Govt under fire over India adoption response	2008 Sep 3
International adoption back under Australian scrutiny	2008 Sep 3
Courts should rule on stolen kids' fate	2008 Sep 2
Adoptive parents of 'kidnapped' children may face legal action	2008 Sep 2
Red tapism delays relief for parents	2008 Sep 1
The Great Indian adoption racket across four continents	2008 Sep 1
Stolen child 'OK to stay in Queensland'	2008 Aug 30
In search of the stolen children	2008 Aug 30
'Maybe now, we will get justice'	2008 Aug 30
Sent for studies, TN kids abandoned in Holland	2008 Aug 29
'Stolen' kids traced to Dutch orphanage	2008 Aug 28
Cover-up claim over 'stolen' child's adoption	2008 Aug 27
Painful truth about adopted children	2008 Aug 26
Tas adoptions cleared	2008 Aug 26
Concern over child trafficking	2008 Aug 26
Qld Govt still awaiting proof of Indian adoption racket	2008 Aug 26
Sold into prosperity	2008 Aug 26
Adoptions from India under scrutiny	2008 Aug 26
Reports of child trafficking in name of adoption "malafide"	2008 Aug 25
Australians risk losing adopted Indian children	2008 Aug 25
CBI unearths child kidnapping racket, Australian family stunned (Lead)	2008 Aug 25
CBI unearths child kidnapping racket	2008 Aug 25
Tasmania checks overseas adoptions	2008 Aug 25
Premier can't recall stolen kid cases	2008 Aug 25
Qld Govt investigates adoption after kidnapping claim	2008 Aug 25
Australia to return 'abducted' children?	2008 Aug 25
Australians risk losing adopted Indian children	2008 Aug 25
Heartbreak for child scam parents	2008 Aug 24
'Stolen babies' adoption racket	2008 Aug 24
Stolen children adopted in Australia: Report	2008 Aug 24
Qld: Govt to help investigate kidnapped Indian children claims	2008 Aug 24
Australian adoptees may be kidnap victims	2008 Aug 24
Kidnapped children adopted by Australians	2008 Aug 23
Oz Opposition leader demands 'returning' of kidnapped Indian kids	2008 Aug 23
Couples sent stolen children by Indian adoption agency	2008 Aug 23
Poor children 'adopted' in Australia were stolen from India, reveals Time magazine	2008 Aug 23
Australians adopt children allegedly stolen in India	2008 Aug 23
Time: Stolen Children	2008 Aug 21
Adoption kingpins in CBI cradle	2008 May 17
Dutch TV - press conference Dutch Minister of Justice	2007 May 1
Tamil Nadu is home to adoption rackets and child-labour gangs	2007 Feb 16
The Big Racket of Small Babies	2005 Jun 12
Manager held in child kidnap racket	2005 May 29
Behind the facade	2005 May 21
THE ADOPTION MARKET	2005 May 21
Photo of Ravindranath family	2005 May 21
Police bust child abduction racket	2005 May 16