Oslo, Feb 28 (IANS) Norway’s child welfare service said Tuesday that two children of Indian parents taken into its care will be handed over to their uncle pending a court ruling, a media report here said.
“It has been concluded that care of the two children should be awarded to the brother of the children’s father, enabling him to take the children back to India,” Norway’s thelocal.no website quoted the child welfare service in Stavanger city as saying in a statement.
Three-year-old Abhigyan and one-year-old Aishwarya — children of Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya, an NRI couple living in Stavanger — were taken under protective care by Barnevarne (Norwegian child welfare services) in May last year on the ground that they were not being looked after properly by their parents.
Over a month ago, India and Norway struck an agreement under which the parents named Anurup’s brother Arunabhash Bhattacharya as the primary caretaker of the two children. Arunabhash Bhattacharya is currently in Norway.
