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Krishna welcomes end of Norway custody row | External Affairs Minister S M Krishna on Tuesday welcomed
a Norway court's decision to allow two Indian kids to return home in the company
of their paternal uncle. "I am delighted to welcome back the two children... they
belong to India , they are Indian nationals. I am confident that their uncle will
take care of them. I thank the Government of Norway , and in particular, the Foreign
Minister, for his constructive approach. All is well that ends well," said Krishna
. The kids - Abhigyan and Aishwarya-arrived here this morning and were received
by their maternal grandparents. On Monday, a Norwegian court had handed over the
two NRI children in foster care to their paternal uncle, ending months of a custody
row that saw India stepping up diplomatic pressure on Norway to send the kids
back. Norway's Children Welfare Service (CWS), which had kept the children in
foster care since May last year, made a recommendation to the Stavanger District
court that the children's custody should be given to the uncle and that they should
be allowed to return to India. Three-year-old Abhigyan and one-year-old Aishwarya
have been placed in the care of two different foster families in Norway . The
Norwegian authorities have said the children were taken away, as their parents,
Sagarika and Anurup, were not taking proper care of them. The parents, however,
claimed that the authorities took exception to the cultural differences such as
sleeping with the children and breastfeeding the daughter at scheduled times,
as opposed to when she cried.
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