Custody Row Norway

• Tug of war for kids continues; Norway NRI couple file police complaints against each other in Kolkata

  Within a month of their return to India, two NRI children, who were earlier taken into foster-care by the Norwegian Childcare Services, find themselves in a new controversy -- their families have filed police complaints against each other alleging threats to kill.

• Return to India in best interest of NRI kids: Norway authorities to court

  The chances of two NRI children returning to India has brightened with the Norwegian Child Welfare Service (CWS), which has kept them in foster care, submitting in a court in Oslo that there is no need to uphold the care order and it was in the best interest of the kids to return to their home country.

• Norway Child Welfare Service recommends uncle to get custody of children

  The Norwegian Child Welfare Service has said that it will recommend that the uncle should take over the care of the two Indian children, who were put away in foster care in May 2011. Three-year-old Abhigyan and one-year-old Aishwarya may be able to return to India with their paternal uncle Dr Arunabhas Bhattacharya who is a dentist in Asansol.

• Yes, we still want our children to return to India, says father in Norway custody row

  The Indian government will today talk to the parents of two young children whose custody has turned into a diplomatic stress-point between Norway and India. The Indian ambassador in Oslo will ask Sagarika and Anurup Bhattacharya whether they want their children to return to India, as they have demanded for months. If Sagarika and Anurup say that th...

• Norway custody case: Decision on govt intervention after talking to parents, say sources

  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.

• Custody row: Two senior govt officials to leave for Norway ahead of hearing

  Two senior officials from the Ministry of External Affairs will leave for Norway ahead of the hearing in the custody row involving Indian couple's two children. An additional secretary and a joint secretary will be in Stavenger in Norway before the court hearing scheduled case next week. The Indian couple - Sagarika and Anurup Bhattacharya - are fi...

• Read: Letter by Norwegian Child Welfare Services

  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.

• Custody row: Norway authorities seek legal guarantees from India

  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".

• Norway custody row: 'It was a test for me, did it for my family,' says children's uncle

  Much to the relief of NRI couple Sagarika and Anurup Bhattacharya, child welfare officials in Norway have decided that they will recommend in court that their children, who have been in foster care since May last year, now be placed in the custody of their uncle, Arunabhas Bhattacharya. One-year-old Aishwarya and three-year-old Abhigyan were taken ...

• Relief for NRI couple in Norway; uncle to get custody of children

  In a big diplomatic win for India, the Child Welfare Services (CWS) of Norway has recommended that the custody of two children of the Indian couple, Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya, should be given to the uncle, Arunabhash Bhattacharya. The court will take the final decision on the custody battle on March 23.

• Norway custody row: Authorities apply for short-term resident permit for children without parents' consent

  In a setback for the NRI couple fighting for the custody of their children in Norway, authorities there have applied for a short-term resident permit for the children without the parents' consent. The Norwegian child welfare services, which is currently looking after the children, has directly approached the country's immigration office for the per...

• Custody row: Grandparents to protest at Norway embassy in Delhi

  The grandparents of three -year-old Abhigyan and one-year-old Aishwarya, the two Indian children who were taken away from their parents in May last year by the Norwegian child welfare services, have decided to bring their protest against the custody battle to Delhi. They say they will go on a four-day dharna outside the Norway embassy in Delhi from...

• Norway custody row: 'They watched us as we met our children'

  Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya met their children after three months on Friday. For about an hour and five minutes it was family time as usual. They held the toddlers, fed them and played with them. Then, it was time to go. For the Bhattacharyas are allowed to meet their children only once in three months.

• Norway custody row: Will the wait get longer?

  Sources have told NDTV that some NGOs and civil society members in Norway are pressurizing the country's government to follow the law of the land and not rush through handing over two NRI children - three-year-old Abhigyan and one-year-old Aishwarya - to their parents.

• Norway custody row: Parents to meet children on Friday

  The Indian couple fighting a custody battle with the Norway authorities will be allowed to meet their children on Friday.