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It was a reunion of a different kind for a divorcee and her two children when she came to visit them at Sisu Vihar after the kids were rescued alongwith 59 other infants and children from an adoption home 'Precious Moments' run by Anita Sen, wife of a senior IPS officer.
The woman, Kavita, who worked as a domestic help, was allegedly lured by Sen to give away her son and daughter to Precious Moments for securing a "better life" for them abroad.
However, the kids were declared orphans after their father was declared dead in the records of the adoption home, when the fact was that the parents had legally separated.
Even the names of the children were changed in the records. While the seven-year-old girl Nagalakshmi was renamed as Laxmi, the five-year-old boy Vigneshwar Reddy became Ravi. The adoption home had reportedly prepared fake adoption documents for the two children and was seeking to send them abroad through a recognised adoption agency in the city.
However, the two kids were among the 61 children rescued by the Child Welfare Department officials after a raid on Precious Moments on April 26.
Kavita came in contact with Sen through an acquaintance Padma. She was promised a job a domestic help at the Delhi residence of Sen's brother. She was made to give away her children after her signatures were allegedly taken on blank papers.
Recently, Kavita got suspicious about the safety of her children when she could not contact the adoption home officials over phone for a month.
She came to the city on April 28 and found Precious Moments closed. She came to Sisu Vihar, the government-run children's home, and found her two kids there on Tuesday evening.
Lacking the means to support her children on her own, she apparently wants to keep them at Sisu Vihar.
Incidentally, Sahvi Begum, the city girl who went missing and was found by her parents at Sisu Vihar on Tuesday, was renamed as Reena by John Abraham Memorial Bethany Home at Tandur where she was apparently lodged for six months before her rescue along with 59 children from the adoption home on April 21.
The adoption papers prepared by the Bethany Home declared her as an orphan. Though Begum was reported missing from her uncle's home at Ram Nagar in the city on November 1 last year, the Bethany Home records claimed that she was staying there since 1999.
Other discrepancies were also found in the Bethany Home records about her.
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