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NRI children back home from Norway
Tuesday April 24, 2012 05:51:32 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The two
Non-Resident Indian (NRI) children in Norway who were taken into
the custody by that country's Child Welfare Services on grounds of
alleged negligence by their parents, returned to India Tuesday.
Minister of State for External Affairs Preneet Kaur was at the
airport here to welcome three-year-old Abhigyan and one-year-old
Aishwarya along with their grand-parents. The children were
accompanied by their Norwegian care-givers.
Abhigyan and Aishwarya, children of Anurup and Sagarika
Bhattacharya, had been taken under protective care in May last
year.
The siblings were given to their uncle, Arunabhash Bhattacharya,
by a Norwegian court in the city of Stavanger Monday, following
which the Indian government facilitated their return to India.
The Norwegian court's decision came as a major breather for the
Bhattacharya family, which had been trying to get back the custody
of the children from their foster parents for nearly a year now.
The Indian government had put in all diplomatic efforts to ensure
that the Indian siblings returned to their homeland and grew up in
their family environment.
Soon after the children returned to India, External Affairs
Minister S.K. Krishna stated that he was "delighted to welcome"
them back home.
"They belong to India. They are Indian nationals," he said,
expressing the confidence that their uncle "will take care of them
in the environment of their extended family in India."
"All is well that ends well," Krishna added.
Krishna also thanked the Norwegian government and his counterpart
for his "constructive approach in resolving this humanitarian
issue."
He also congratulated the Norwegian judiciary.
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