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Norway custody row ends; children arrive in India | | Two Indian toddlers caught up in an almost year-long custody battle
in Norway, finally arrived in India today along with their paternal uncle. The
kids - Abhigyan and Aishwarya arrived here this morning and were received by their
maternal grandparents. Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur, who
was present at the airport, said the kids were brought to India by their foster
father and several other officials from Norway. 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 Norwigian 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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