Aditya Chandran fate decided in an American court

Seven years old NRI child Aditya, caught in a bitter custody battle, will now have his fate decided in an American court.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the seven-year-old NRI child Aditya to be sent to USA within 15 days and let the American court decide on his custody.

The NRI couple was separated in America and a court there gave joint custody of the child. But the mother took the child to India in 2007 and violated the American court order.

The Supreme Court directed Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to find the child after the husband approached the apex court. Two weeks ago CBI found the mother and child at Chennai and produced them in the court. Aditya was studying in a school at Chennai.

The child and mother will have to reach US within the specified time frame and the travel expenses and stay will be borne by the father. The Supreme Court has warned the mother, Vijayshree, that if she does not comply with the ruling, the court will grant Aditya’s custody to his father.

During the last hearing, the apex court had said the welfare of the child was important and wanted parents to come to a solution.

Sobbing outside the Supreme Court, Vijayshree said, “We have tried our best. We will follow the Supreme Court order. But facts from our side didn’t come out.”

Reacting to the court order, Aditya’s father said, “I am happy that the Supreme Court recognised a father’s rights. My son has been tutored by her mother to say things against me in court.”

The apex court also said that all the cases against the mother where warrants have been issued would be withdrawn.

3 thoughts on “Aditya Chandran fate decided in an American court

  1. T thank all those helped me in rescuing Aditya. I am also very thankful to the judgment of the Supreme Court of India on Aditya case, rendering justice.

    Child rights activists are very much concerned about the welfare of abused children in India, and I welcome their comments on Aditya’s case. I thank Kumar Jaghirdar of CRISP india for he unrelenting desire to help children longing to be with both parents.

    Please review the news article published in Mail Today dated Nov 21, 2009, page 12. I am pleased to see that NGO’s like National Commission for Protection of Child Rights, India Alliance for Child Rights, and HAQ Centre for Child Rights are doing everything possible to bring the unfortunate situation stated below out in the open and help children of India, some of whom are abused and underprivileged.

    I would like to point out certain misconceptions and misunderstanding in the media and public at large about Aditya’s case. Fortunately, Aditya’s case is over, but for thousands of other children in his situation, the nightmare continues.

    The article says that My son, Aditya Chandran was allowed to voice his opinion in front of the 3-judge panel of Honourable Justices Tarun Chatterjee, R.M. Lodha and Dr. B.S.Chauhan on November 10 and again on November 12th. I was present in the court on those days, so are the counsels, newspaper reporters and other court officers.

    Aditya told the 3-judge panel, that…”My father is a bad man..” on November 10, 2009 and again on November 12th he said “he likes India”. Now the question is, why did he utter such appalling words?

    When Aditya made those statements, Honourable Justice Tarun Chatterjee and other Justices were visibly displeased, and in no uncertain terms told the counsels for Vijayasree that they even had the courage to put up poor Aditya in front the judges, as he was thoroughly coached by his mother.

    Please note that Vijayasree Voora, who is a fugitive of the law, dodged police from numerous Indian states, and was finally secured by the CBI on October 24, 2009 and presented in Supreme Court of India. During this 30 month ordeal, she ran all over India with no regard for the safety and security of Aditya. Further during that period, Vijayasree has been coaching Aditya that….”see your father does not love you, he didn’t even come to see you…”. She had been making these false statements to Aditya on his birthdays and other religious holidays. Unfortunately Aditya didn’t have any independent confirmation of any of the statements made to him by his mother, as he could not contact me as I was completely cut off from his life by his mother.

    It has been concluded by the psychologists that poisoning the mind of a young child by one parent against the other left out parent is one of the most brutal form of child abuse. It is very unfortunate that Aditya had to undergo this type of treatment in his own mother’s hands for the past 30 months.

    All allegations levelled against me by Vijayasree Voora has be thoroughly investigated by the NY family court in Albany NY. After investigating the abuse allegations, the supreme Court of India sided with the NY family court. The 3-judge panel of the Supreme court of India has declared that all allegations by Vijayasree against me are hollow and without any substance (Page 31, Judgement for Writ Petition CRL No. 112/2009 dated November 17, 2009). Two different supreme courts in two different countries has declared that all allegations of Vijayasree against me are false and baseless. One must give proper respect to the Supreme Court honourable Judges, and not upset and question the 3-judge panel decision from the highest court of the land after thorough deliberations.

    A mother who is willing to poison the mind of a very young child is not in the best interest of the future of the child. This is clear from the verdict given by the Supreme Court of India. Vijayasree is the one responsible for abusing the child by not having him stability of school and enjoy fellowship of other children (Page 33 or the Supreme Court Judgement for Writ Petition CRL No. 112/2007). The supreme court has also concluded, based upon the behaviour of the mother, that …”there is nothing on record which may even remotely suggest that it would be harmful for the child to be returned to his native country…” (Page 32, Judgement for Writ Petition CRL No. 112/2009 dated November 17, 2009)

    While Aditya is safe now, I am very much concerned about thousands of Indian Children, whose young minds are poisoned by custodial parent against the other non-custodial parent. Most of these cases, the child is completely cut off from the other parent, and love and affection from the non-custodial parent are with held. I am hoping the Child Rights activists bring an end to this brutal form of child abuse happening every day in India.

    I am pleased that Mail Today has started a healthy arguments about right of children of India to be heard in the Supreme Court of India. It is also clear that honourable justices of the court are not interested in hearing from children who are coached and poisoned by their mother (or father) against the other parent. This is a good day for all those children who deserve affection and love from both parents.

    I love my son Aditya, and I am looking forward to spend time with my beloved son. I am hoping that he will grow up to be a very happy and healthy individual and an outstanding citizen. God bless Aditya.
    Sincerely, Dr. V. Ravi Chandran, Father of Aditya Chandran.

  2. I, Dr. V. Ravi Chandran, father of Aditya Chandran, am pleased to inform all concerned here in this blog, that Aditya, my beloved son was rescued finally from the Internationally violent Child Kidnapper, convicted (US) child abuser, court certified criminally insane mother Vijayasree Voora on May 1st 2010 by the India’s premiere investigative agency, Central Bureau of Investigations from a 3rd class seedy motel in Chennai.
    Aditya was immediately handed over to me, Father, on the same day by the CBI. I then quickly transported Aditya out of the filthy streets of India to which he was accustomed to back to USA on May 6th 2010. This is to prevent re-kidnapping and severe abuse of Aditya by Vijayasree and her parents and family members of Vijayasree. Very long 1020 days of incredible suffering for Aditya is now over. He will never have to return to seedy motels, abusive mother and wretched streets of India.
    Aditya was very happy and pleased to join his loving family back in his native country, USA, and also started attending school in May 10, 2010.
    I thank Supreme Court of India, CBI and CRISP for rendering justice to Aditya finally. God bless Aditya.
    Dr. V. Ravi Chandran, Father of Aditya.

  3. Parental Alienation of Aditya Chandran
    By Dr. V. Ravi Chandran, father of Aditya.
    International parental kidnapping of Aditya and subsequent brainwashing and parental alienation of Aditya is a text book case. This letter is a summary of every technique used by Aditya’s mother to alienate him from his father.
    In June 2007, Albany County Family court in upstate NY allowed Vijayasree Voora, mother of Aditya Chandran (then 5 year old boy) to be taken to India for a short visit, with a stipulation that she should bring Aditya back to the USA by August 3, 2007. However, Vijayasree after reaching India in June 28, 2007, disappeared along with Aditya, and became completely untraceable.
    I had to leave my job and everything in the USA to go to India since September 2007, and filed a Habeas Corpus petition in the Supreme Court of India. The Supreme Court of India ordered various police departments in 5 different states to trace my ex-wife and son. It is very difficult time for me emotionally. When the 5 different state police failed to trace my son in India, the Supreme Court of India ordered CBI (Central Bureau of Investigations, India’s equivalent of FBI) to trace my son in August 2009. In October 2009, my son and my ex-wife were traced by the CBI in a seedy motel in Chennai. On November 19, 2009, Supreme Court of India made a landmark decision, asking the mother to take the child back to USA. However, my ex-wife failed to do so, and escaped from CBI custody with my son.
    The court again ordered CBI to trace my son, and on May 1st, my son Aditya Chandran now 8 years old was traced in another seedy motel in Chennai, South India, and on the same day he was handed over to me.
    Aditya was a five year old young cheerful boy with sparkling innocent eyes when he was kidnapped to India in June 2007. After 2 ½ years of captivity and violent abuse by Vijayasree Voora , when I first saw him on May 1st 2010, my heart sunk to note how much the joy was forced out of him. He was thin, malnourished, and had the growth and development of a boy who was 2 years behind. This is what was done to him during those two years of fugitive lifestyle in India under the care of his criminally insane mother. While hard life in the filthy streets of India led to the loss of innocence for Aditya, I am planning to work hard to bring happiness in my beloved son’s life.
    On May 6th 2010, I exited India safely with my son and reached USA. Thank god.
    During the period between June 2007 to October 2009, Vijayasree Voora violently abused Aditya. It is important to note that Vijayasree Voora was and as of now severely mentally ill, and suffers from Munchausen by Proxy syndrome, in which the parent takes unusual pleasure to subjecting their children to numerous hospital and doctor visits, most of which result in severe painful operations and treatments. But even more importantly, it should be noted that she did abuse Aditya because I, his father loved him. This twisted logic was the basis of severe and violent abuse of Aditya for a period of 30 months by Vijayasree Voora.
    Since Vijayaree had Aditya under her control exclusively, she had this fantastic opportunity to alienate him from his father, which was systematic and brutal. She had absolutely no regard for the emotional health of Aditya, and she obtained pure pleasure by violently abusing him by taking him to doctors and hospitals at every opportunity.
    After Aditya was rescued from his mentally ill, criminally insane, and violently abusive mother, I asked him how many times did he visit doctors and hospitals. He said going to doctors was constant affair, and further enumerated that numerous times blood was drawn from his brachial veins for testing purpose. Most egregious physical and mental abuse of Aditya was his visits to dentists forced by his mother. During the period from June 2007 to April 2010, all his teeth were not allowed to fall normally, instead, he was taken to at least 5 dentists and the baby teeth were forced out. I asked, if it did pain, and he said, no, it didn’t pain while the teeth were loose, but yes, it pained very much when the dentists gave injection and then pulled the teeth, and sometimes they rub a local anathetic and pulled off. Either way during and after pulling those baby teeth, Aditya stated that it pained very much. However he was very surprised during the 2nd quarter of 2010 when one of his teeth fell off normally after he came back to USA. Naturally I was not going to take him to a dentist to remove his baby teeth.
    Violent abuse of Aditya included not allowing him to have any social interaction. He was admitted to not less than 30 schools, and he was constantly moved from one location to another all over India. Vijayasree Voora’s mental illness was so severe that she didn’t understand the emotional consequences of her actions on Aditya.
    Since she didn’t have to get permission from Aditya’s father, Vijayasree had a free rein on brutal and unnecessary surgical operations on Aditya. She had systematically subjected Aditya to removal his tonsils, and adenoids and whatever else for flimsy or for wrong reasons. She took incredible pleasure of subjecting Aditya a numerous such operations, which she had refused to inform his father.
    Truly emotional abuse of Aditya took the form of parental alienation. Aditya was never allowed to talk to his father for the entire period of 30 months during the abduction and fugitive life style. Here are some extreme examples of how Vijayasree brain washed Aditya against his father:
    1. Sexual abuse: Day after day Vijayasree told Aditya that he was sexually abused by his father, and it is very important that Aditya should stay close to her. If his father ever finds him, he will be subjected to same. Aditya, after hearing this every day for 30 months, believed that his father abused him sexually.
    I asked Aditya after his rescue, what does he think now about his father. He said, that I changed, and became a “good” person. I told him that I never changed, I have been always a good father to him, and it seems that he is confused how come father has “changed”.

    2. Change of Name: Aditya’s name was changed to Arya and to complete his brain washing, Vijayasree even changed his last name to ‘Rao”.

    3. The brain washing of Aditya was so complete, that in a hearing in Supreme Court of India, Aditya told the 3-judge panel that his father is a bad man. (Fortunately the judges realized that for 3 years he had been brainwashed, and chastised the mother for raising a child to hate his father). In fact Aditya’s statements at the Supreme Court of India just had the opposite reaction than what Vijayasree Voora expected.

    4. Vijayasree Voora had severe malignant motives for her action of parental alienation, which include a) poor boundaries-failure to recognize the distinction between parental thoughts and children’s needs; b) desire for revenge against me (ex-husband); c) extreme narcissism; d) Guilt-attempt to deflect attention from her own failings as mother and wife; e) Insecurity-fearing that Aditya will like his father more than his mother; f)Paranoia – feelings that the other parent is fostering alienation; g) History of poor or absent relationship with at least one parent – Vijayasree Voora was born when her mother was only 13 years old, and she never had any good relationship with her mother.

    5. Alienating environment Vijayasree created for Aditya is another classic text book case. For example, she created conditions condusive for total alienation of Aditya: a) Isolation – Aditya was completely removed from any relative or friends from either side of his family for 30 months; b) Relocation – Aditya was constantly moved from one city or town to another during the 30 month ordeal in India; c) Kidnapping – Aditya case is classical international parental kidnapping, demonstrating that Vijayasree had no regard or respect for any law of any country; d) Stripping – a technique generally employed by cults, where earlier symbolic and emotional connections are completely “stripped”. In case of Aditya “stripping” was so bizarre and treacherous, for example removing all photos of Aditya’s father, changing his name, and completely eliminating any contact with father and that side of the family. Furthermore Aditya was so well trained that he stated that “mom does not like the fact that I am thinking about dad”! e) Fear – Because of extreme way in which Vijayasree vents her anger in an irrational and uncontrolled manner, Aditya wanted to make sure that he is not the target of his mother’s next tantrum. Like isolation, he was becoming more psychologically dependent upon his bad-mouthing mother.

    6. Another factor that was responsible for alienation of Aditya was the corruption of his reality. A) Name game – Vijayasree, similar to cult leaders, understood the power of language. She called her ex-husband, father of Aditya an “evil man” in front of Aditya numerous times over the 30 month period. B) Child Aliases – Furthermore by changing Aditya’s name of Arya, Vijayasree attempted to devalue any relationship Aditya previously had with his father. C) Repetition -This is akin to implanting false memories in children, and Vijayasree successfully implanted numerous false memories in Aditya against his father. D) Selective attention – Aditya was pointed out any of the weak qualities of his father and those are the only qualities Vijayasree talked in front of Aditya. This also included judging father’s behavior out of context. For example, according to Aditya, Vijayasree told him that his father does not love, because, you see, he has not so far come to see you in the past 3 years! – while all along it was Vijayasree who kept Aditya away from everyone, including his father. Of course exaggeration and lies were part of the parental alienation, and Vijayasree fully used them to her advantage. E) Revisionist History – Similar to tactics used by the leaders of soviet Russia, Vijayasree systematically removed all good memories of Aditya about his father, and only implanted bad memories in his head.

    7. Projection: Because of the severe mental illness, projection of her own shortcomings became a potent weapon in the hands of Vijayasree Voora. Since intuitively she knows that she is a criminal, she projected her criminal behavior on other, claiming that others are criminals. In a recent conversation with me, Vijayasree asked, that…”You should not torture Aditya because I love him”. This statement was quite bizarre as it sounds, and made me wonder, if she tortured Aditya because I loved him so much. Then everything fell into place, and one early morning recently I realized why Aditya was immune to both physical and mental pain. He mental and physical torture was so brutal and complete, he was resigned to the fact the “life is like this, fully of pain and suffering, and better resign to this fact”.

    8. No Love for Aditya: After Aditya was transported to USA, I expected Vijayasree to be in contact with him. But such telephone contact, originally frequent during first few days, trickled down to nothing at the present time. It is very clear, Aditya was used as pawn to torture his father. Once he is no longer available, he is of no use to Vijayasree, hence she completely cut him off from her life. This is the cruel story of a reckless mother with no love for her son.
    I am currently working with Aditya to reverse the damages done to my beloved son. Tender loving care is what he needs, and I plan bring much happiness to my son’s life, and bring back his innocence.
    I thank all the Supreme Court Justices for all their help and doing right by Aditya.

    Aditya now enrolled in a excellent school district in Texas USA, and since he is suffering from severe Parental Alienation, he may require prolonged therapy from a child psychologist and tender loving care from his immediately family in the USA.

    Parental Child Abduction is the worst form of Child Abuse and yet society and the legal system (where these cases are allowed toi be dragged out for 6-8 years) allows these psychologically challenged non-Indian resident/foreign citizen mothers to hide behind their lies and evade responsibility for their wrongdoings simply and the orders of foreign courts. What makes it worse is that neither the Indian schools that help the abductor hide the child (and even agree to change the kidnapped child’s surname) nor the abductors (and their helpers, e.g., relatives and friends, lawyers, doctors and other professionals) care that Parental Alienation Syndrome causes long lasting psychological damage to the child (it can damage his/her ability to enter into mature relationships). Consequently, India has become a safe haven for the NRI/PIO perpetuators of Parental Child Abduction. Therefore, there needs to be a strong deterrant and punishment for the abductor (and anybody that aids the abductor) to stop committing such heinous crimes, and India should sign the Hague Convention Treaty on International Private Law such that what was done to your child over the last couple of years does not happen to other innocent children.

    I hope and pray that the same sanity will prevail in other cases of parental child abductions to India and those in charge will take steps to ensure that the psychological well-being of the child and the kidnapped child’s relationship with the other parent is not destroyed.

    Additional Solicitor General Indira Jaising has previously stated that India should sign the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction and she also knows that there are several such cases pending in the Indian Courts which involve foreign citizen women of Indian origin where the abductors have jumped jurisdiction and are misusing the laws in India. Hopefully the Government of India will pass this bill, so that kidnapped children will be speedily returned back to their native countries.
    God bless Aditya.

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