Melbourne, Aug 23 : Following reports of an active racket involved in kidnapping children from India and shifting them to Australia for adoption, Aussie Opposition leader Dr Brendan Nelson has demanded that the “kidnapped” children living in his country should be returned to their home country.

Any children kidnapped in an overseas adoption racket will likely have to be returned to their families, Nelson said.

Media reports over the past two days have suggested that at least 30 children adopted in Australia may have been stolen from their parents by a child trafficking ring operating in India between 1998 and 1999.

Mumbai-based drug major Lupin has acquired over 30 per cent stake in Generic Health Pty Ltd.

Generic Health Pty Ltd is leading company in the Australian market. It is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded by managing director, and a pharmaceutical executive, Gavin Upiter in 2004.

Melbourne, Aug 22: In a startling revelation made by Time magazine, poor children are first kidnapped from Chennai, in southern India, sold out to an adoption agency “Malaysian Social Services” for an amount as low as Rs 10,000-12000, and the agency finally sends them out to Australia to be “adopted” by different families.

More than a dozen “pretty” children kidnapped in Indian slums have ended up being adopted in Australia, the Magazine reported, and quoted the Indian Police as saying that at least 13 kidnapped children were adopted by Australian families in recent months.

Wellington  - New Zealand and Australia have contingency plans to evacuate their citizens from Fiji in an emergency, New Zealand's defence minister said Friday as the Pacific island state's military leader warned his people of hard times ahead.

Minister Phil Goff confirmed after talks with his Australian counterpart, Joel Fitzgibbon, in Wellington the existence of a joint plan to evacuate their people from Fiji if the security situation deteriorated and they were in danger.

"We don't expect the situation to deteriorate," he told reporters, "but we would be remiss in our duty not to have a plan in place."

Pharmaceutical major Lupin has acquired a minority stake in Melbourne-headquartered Generic Health, for undisclosed amount.

Generic Health, markets a wide range of quality generic prescriptions and OTC products. The company has recently acquired Bellwether Pharma and has entered into a strategic alliance with Actavis.

Australia is one of the leading global markets with sales of over Australian $10 billion (including branded generics and OTC), and witnessing a rapid genericisation.

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