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Ex-head of NGO plans to sue Shalini Mishra

Staff Reporter

HYDERABAD: The executive director of the now defunct Action for Social Development, N. Sanjeeva Rao, plans to file a defamation case against the former Director of Women and Child Welfare, Shalini Mishra.

Mr. Sanjeeva Rao was arrested on the charge of selling children in 2001. His organisation was raided and the children taken away to Sishuvihar when the child adoption scandal rocked the State.

Acquitted of all criminal charges filed against him and the organisation recently, Mr. Sanjeeva Rao told mediapersons on Thursday that he could not clarify the issue earlier because of the charges pending against him.

Awareness programme

Stating that he was consulting legal experts for filing a defamation suit, he also said that an awareness programme should be taken up to educate people and Government officials about adoption laws and the procedural aspects specified by the Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA).

Alleging that the then Director of Women and Child Welfare and her officers had no knowledge of procedural aspects and the laws governing adoptions, he said the officers raided his organisation illegally and had taken away the children forcibly.

"The GO No.16 was issued two days after his organisation was raided, but Ms. Shalini Mishra booked cases against me for contravention of the alleged non-existing GO," he charged.

He said that they had never resorted to sale of children and what they had collected was maintenance charges as per the guidelines of the Supreme Court from adoptive parents at the rate of Rs.120 per day for the period during which the child was in the centre. He also refuted the allegation that they had sold children to foreign parents, ignoring the requests of Indians.

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