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Seoul: Dr Manmohan Singh has told the prime minister of Norway that he hopes there will be "a positive outcome" for the Indian parents fighting to bring their children back home from there. Sagarika and Anurup Bhattacharya have been trying their best to convince Norwegian officials that their young son and daughter should be released from foster care. Aishwarya (1) and Abhigyan (3) were taken away by child welfare officials in Norway who said the Bhattacharyas were negligent parents. Anurup was posted as a geologist in Stavager. His family's visas, and his own, expire this month.
Dr Singh told the Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg that India places much emphasis on strong family values. The meeting took place on the sidelines of a nuclear summit in Seoul. "It is a matter of municipality and judicial court. The sentiments of parents should not be hurt," Indian Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai said. Mr Stoltenberg reportedly told Dr Singh that the local municipality is planning to take the next steps in consultation with the district court and all parties concerned.
The Indian government stepped in a few months ago to point out to Norway that the children are Indian citizens and cannot be treated as "stateless orphans." A series of diplomats were deputed to meet child welfare and other authorities to help them accept Anurup's younger brother, Arunabhas, as the children's custodian. They would be allowed to return to India in his care with supervision by Indian authorities. But a Public Relations nightmare for the government erupted last weekend when different newspapers claimed that Anurup had said his wife is prone to violence and that he would prefer for his children to stay in Norway. Child welfare officials cited the dispute to say that the solution offered by the Indian government and the family no longer seemed acceptable. "In the light of the great uncertainty that now prevails, the Child Welfare Service (CWS) cannot maintain that a move to India would be in the best interests of the children," Child Welfare Service chief Gunnar Toresen had said.
The Indian government then asked the Bhattacharyas to clearly state what they wanted for their children. Anurup released a press statement that said that his wife and he remain committed to bringing their children home. The government has decided to back them. And the leaders of all major political parties have formally requested the Indian government to handle the case.
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New Delhi: After hitting near-crisis mode, India's case to bring back two young children placed in foster care in Norway appears to be back on track. Sources say the agreement to be presented in the Norwegian District Court has been signed by the parents and the uncle under the supervision of Indian authorities. The agreement says one-year-old Aishwarya and three-year-old Abhigyan will be placed in the custody of their father's brother, Arunabhas Bhattacharya.
India has spent three months backing the children's parents, Anurup and Sagarika Bhattcharya, in their demand that the children be allowed to come back to India. The children were placed in foster care last May by child welfare officials who decided the Bhattacharyas were unfit parents and their son suffered from an attachment disorder and needed better care. A series of visits by Indian diplomats convinced Norwegian authorities to assess Mr Anurup's brother as a possible care-giver. He has been visiting his niece and nephew supervised by child welfare officials.
But over the weekend, Mr Anurup was quoted by a series of newspapers as saying that he was planning to separate from his wife who is physically abusive. Sources in the Indian government said he had told Norwegian authorities that he would prefer his children to stay there. His brother had also allegedly said that he no longer wanted to look after the children because he was worried of a long legal dispute with their mother if the children were to return to India. That left the Indian government deeply embarrassed and yesterday, it asked its officials in Norway to talk to the Bhattacharyas for a clear understanding of their position. Meanwhile, child welfare officials issued a statement saying that the new family dispute would not allow them to hand the children to the Bhattacharyas or their relatives.
Mr Anurup told NDTV yesterday that his wife and he remain committed to bring their children home with Mr Arunabhas as their legal guardian. The statement will now be put forth to the Stavanger District court that needs to be convinced that it is best for children to return to India with their uncle. With the Indian diplomats backing the parents, the Norwegians will be under pressure again to not make fresh demands to dictate terms that they assess as necessary for children's well being with the uncle.
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Stavanger: In a huge setback to the Indian couple fighting for the custody of their children in Norway, the Child Welfare Services (CWS) has categorically said the children cannot go back to family now and the case will be dropped.
In a statement, the CWS said, "New developments involving two Indian children make it impossible to carry out the hearing in Stavanger District Court that was scheduled for Friday, March 23. The conflicts over the last few days between the parents and their respective families mean that the conditions for entering into an agreement of this kind are no longer present."
In that hearing, the Indian authorities were supposed to recommend to a court in Norway that the children - three-year-old Abhigyan and one-year-old Aishwarya - be placed in the custody of their uncle. What's worse is that there is no indication that there will be a new hearing.
The CWS "is no longer confident that the parties wish to enter into a genuine agreement. Over the last few days, the parties to the agreement have provided conflicting and different information, both to the Child Welfare Service and to the media, on their positions in the case," CWS chief Gunnar Toreseen said.
He emphasised that the CWS was well aware that there was a great deal of external pressure on the family, and that this made it difficult for them to agree on a clear position. "But in the light of the great uncertainty that now prevails, the Child Welfare Service cannot maintain that a move to India would be in the best interests of the children."
"Even if the parents and the children's uncle should nevertheless now want to sign an agreement, the Child Welfare Service does not have sufficient confidence that an agreement would be fulfilled as intended, because the necessary consensus and understanding between the parties and their families does not exist," he said.
The children were placed in foster care against in Norway last May against the wishes of their parents, Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya. However, reports emerged that after a fight with his wife, Anurup had told Norwegian officials that he would prefer for Abhigyan and Aishwarya to stay in Norway. Different newspapers quoted him as saying that he wanted to separate from his wife who allegedly attacked him over the weekend and has a record of being violent towards him. But yesterday, Anurup said that his goal remains to bring back his children to their country. "I, Anurup Bhattacharya have not filed for separation or divorce... Whatever our personal differences, we are united in our sole principal aim, which is to get the children back to India," he clarified in a press release. That plan includes placing the children in the formal care of his brother.
During the custody battle, the CWS had agreed to give children to their uncle, a dentist named Arunabhas. But over the last few days, according to CWS, the parents and the uncle of the children have changed their position several times on the agreement that had originally been reached.
"This has caused the Child Welfare Service to doubt their motives as far as the agreement is concerned. The Child Welfare Service does not have sufficient confidence that an agreement would be fulfilled as intended because the necessary consensus and understanding between the parties and their families does not exist," the CWS statement said.
For months, the Indian government has thrown its weight behind the Bhattacharyas. But these new developments have embarrassed the Indian government which had been pressuring Norway to send the children back with their parents. A series of Indian diplomats were sent to Oslo to talk to authorities there to plead the Bhattacharyas' case. "The government has tried its best to bring the children home so that they have a future in the country. But a new situation has developed.... we cannot interfere. The visit of a Joint Secretary (to Norway) has been postponed," Minister of State for External Affairs, Preneet Kaur, told reporters yesterday.
Sources have told NDTV that with the family dispute out in the open, the government is in a difficult position and is unable to have a diplomatic edge to take a strong stand. The government rushed its First Secretary in the Indian Embassy in Norway to Stavanger to sort out the mess but at this stage future intervention from the Indian government is uncertain. Anurup's visa expires this month. He was posted to Norway on an official assignment. The family insisted that Child Welfare Service officials who had placed the children in foster care had mistaken cultural differences for poor parenting. So Sagarika argued that she was being penalised for feeding her young daughter by hand, or for letting her son sleep in his parents' bed
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New Delhi: In a bizarre turn of events in the custody case of Indian children in Norway, Indian government sources said the father of the children had told the authorities in Norway that he wanted his children to stay on in the country. The father, Anurup Bhattacharya, however has denied the reports.
Mr Bhattacharya, who along with his wife Sagarika, has been fighting for the custody of his two children, reportedly informed Norwegian authorities that he had been physically abused by his wife. Source reported that he further said that he feared that she might be handed over the custody of their two children if they return to India.
The Bhattacharyas' children, one-year-old Aishwarya and three-year-old Abhigyan, have been under foster care since May last year. This was done after officials of the Child Welfare Services in Norway decided that the parents were negligent.
On Tuesday, Mr Bhattacharya, sources claim, suddenly said that wanted the children to remain under the custody of the Norwegian government. He reportedly cited Indian laws - which favour the mother being granted the custody of children who are below the age of five years - as the reason for his reluctance over the toddlers being sent back to their native country. He also informed the Norwegian authorities that he will be filing for divorce.
But Anurup later said he was still considering filing a divorce, though he admitted he was living separately from his wife. He also said the hearing, earlier scheduled for Friday, was postponed because the Indian government failed to give the legal documents the Norwegian authorities had asked for.
The case has been further complicated by the fact that the uncle of the children, Arunabhash Bhattacharya, has also expressed his unwillingness to be their guardian, according to Indian government sources. Arunabhash, a young dentist from West Bengal, has been undergoing training sessions by the child welfare officials to position him as the children's guardian, and has denied these reports.
Anurup, a geologist, moved to Norway in 2006. Trouble began at Abhigyan's school where teachers found him distant. Visits by local authorities scaled up into a number of charges against the parents - Sagarika was reported as being clinically depressed, though no medical test was conducted. Anurup was evaluated as a parent more committed to work than to his children. Abhigyan, it was said, suffered from attachment disorder. The authorities claimed his reactions suggested he had either been hit or had been witnessing physical violence at home.
The Indian government was nudged into intervention by desperate visits to Delhi by Sagarika's aged parents. They held protests, met President Pratibha Patil and petitioned the media for assistance. As a result of the campaign, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna promised them that their grandchildren would be brought back to India "at any cost". India also rushed a special envoy Madhusudan Ganpathy to meet Oslo authorities and ask them to expedite the process.
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Kolkata: The Norway child custody case involving an NRI couple which has already sparked off a diplomatic row has taken a curious turn following the husband and his parents alleging that the wife had "psychological problems".
Anurup Bhattacharya, a geophysicist and the father of two children Abhigyan aged three and one-year-old Aishwarya, who were taken into care by Norwegian social services, has accused his wife Sagarika of having "psychological problem" and is mulling separation from her.
"Yes, Anurup is mulling legal separation from his wife as she suffers from acute schizophrenia. Last night (Monday) Sagarika attacked my son and badly injured him. Since then, he has fled from her and is living elsewhere. She has been attacking him for long," Anurup's father Ajay Bhattacharya told IANS.
"Anurup came to know about her mental disorder shortly after their marriage in 2007 and has been tolerating her bad behaviour ever since. But now he cannot take it anymore. He had kept quiet till now to get back the custody of his children," he added.
He also said that the Norwegian child care authorities are also aware about her illness as they had been observing Sagarika for long.
The two children have been in foster care since May last year after child welfare officials in Norway decided that their parents were negligent.
After the Indian government's intervention, the authorities had agreed to recommend to a court in Norway on March 23 that the children be placed in the custody of their uncle Arunabhas Bhattacharya.
Amid public outrage and protests by the opposition, India last month had sent special envoy Madhusudhan Ganapathi, secretary (West) in the external affairs ministry, to Norway to urge the authorities to help facilitate an early return of the children to India.
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Oslo: In what seems as yet another obstruction in the custody battle of one-year-old Aishwarya and three-year-old Abhigyan, the Norwegian Child Welfare Services have sought fresh legal guarantees from India.
The two children have been in foster care since May last year after Norway child welfare officials decided that their parents - Sagarika and Anurup Bhattacharya - were negligent. After the India government's intervention, the authorities had agreed to recommend to a court in Norway on March 23 that the children be placed in the custody of their uncle Arunabhas Bhattacharya.
But in a fresh letter written to the embassy of India, the Child Welfare Services have asked for legal documents guaranteeing that appropriate care and treatment would be given to the boy who has special needs. They have also sought assurance that the children's uncle would continue to be their legal guardian in India. They have also sought that these documents be submitted one week before the court hearing, and have warned that failing this, the children will have to stay on in Norway.
Though the letter says that the Norwegian authorities are seeking the guarantees in writing on "urgent basis" only to "facilitate the process of reaching a solution", there are fears that this could possibly delay the handing over of the children to their uncle.
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Stavanger, Norway: In what seems as yet another obstruction in the custody battle of one-year-old Aishwarya and three-year-old Abhigyan, Norwegian child welfare authorities have sought fresh legal guarantees and assurances from India on "urgent basis".
The two children have been in foster care since May last year after child welfare officials in Norway decided that their parents - Sagarika and Anurup Bhattacharya - were negligent. After the India government's intervention, the authorities had agreed to recommend to a court in Norway on March 23 that the children be placed in the custody of their uncle Arunabhas Bhattacharya. "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," a statement released by Norway's Child Welfare Service (CWS) last month read.
But in a fresh letter written to the embassy of India now, the CWS has asked for legal documents guaranteeing that appropriate care and treatment would be given to the boy who has special needs. They have also sought assurance that the children's uncle would continue to be their legal guardian in India. These documents, they say, ought to be submitted at least one week before the court hearing, failing which the children will have to stay on in Norway. (Read letter here)
Though the letter says that the Norwegian authorities are seeking the guarantees in writing only to "facilitate the process of reaching a solution", there are fears that this could possibly delay the handing over of the children to their uncle. The two toddlers have met their parents only thrice since May last year.
Anurup, a geologist, moved to Norway in 2006. Trouble began at Abihgyan's school where teachers found him distant. Visits by local authorities scaled up into a number of charges against the parents - Sagarika was reported as being clinically depressed, though no medical test was conducted. Anurup was evaluated as a parent more committed to work than to his children. Abhigyan it was said suffered from attachment disorder. The authorities claimed his reactions suggested he had either been hit or had been witnessing physical violence at home. The patents deny these charges.
The Indian government was nudged into intervention by desperate visits to Delhi by Sagarika's aged parents. They held protests, met President Pratibha Patil and petitioned the media for assistance. As a result of the campaign, External Affairs Minister SM Krishna promised them that their grandchildren would be brought back to India "at any cost." India also rushed a special envoy Madhusudan Ganpathy to meet Oslo authorities and ask them to expedite the process.
Through the last month, the Norwegian Child Welfare Service has been working on positioning Arunabhas, a young dentist from West Bengal, as the children's guardian. Norwegian officials have allowed him to meet Abhigyan and Aishwarya several times but under supervision.
