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One of the key accused in the child adoption racket and a former minister Roda Mistry surrendered before the ninth metropolitan magistrate in Hyderabad on Wednesday afternoon. She was remanded to judicial custody till September 7.
Earlier, the metropolitan sessions court and the high court had rejected her applications for anticipatory bail.
After surrendering, Mistry filed an application before Ninth Metropolitan Magistrate A Anand Rao that her health had deteriorated and, as such, she needed medical attention. She urged the court to direct her to any hospital rather than jail.
The magistrate directed jail authorities to subject Mistry to a medical examination and act upon the findings.
Mistry, president of the Indian Council of Social Welfare, is one of the eight accused in the child adoption racket who have been chargesheeted for offences under Sections 120 (B), 420, 468, 471, 363, 373, 372, 175, 188, 342, 343 and 211 of the Indian Penal Code.
They have been accused of using illegal means while offering children for adoption for monetary considerations.
The ICSW has been in the news since the child adoption racket was exposed in April this year.
On June 19, as many as 18 kids were rescued from ICSW's children home and shifted to Sishu Vihar, the children's home run by the state government. The rescued kids included 10 disabled children and three mentally retarded kids between the ages of five months and 14 years.
Central Adoption Resource Agency (CARA), the regulatory body for adoption of children, de-recognised ICSW even as Mistry surrendered the license of her adoption home in May this year in the wake of the controversy.
The ICSW had come to the 'adverse notice' of the state's Child Welfare Department and CARA for accepting infants and children from an unrecognised adoption home 'Precious Moments' for inter-country adoptions.
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