Grandpa and grandma happy at the decision to return kids

Jan 25, 2012 |

Kolkata

Tags:

Grandparents of the two children of an NRI couple Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya, on Wednesday expressed happiness that the kids, taken away by the Norwegian Childcare Services on grounds of 'emotional disconnect' for eight long months, would be handed over to their uncle.

"This is undoubtedly a matter of great relief that Abhigyan (3) and Aishwarya (1) will now be returned to their parents and we are eager to see them back here", said Sikha Chakraborty to a TV channel.

Turning emotional at the decision finalised at an agreement between India and Norway, Sikha said "We have not seen them for a long time. It seems that not a single second is wasted. I had a telephonic talk with my daughter in Oslo today for a short period and I came to know that they too are happy at this news. But we will never allow my daughter and son-in law to visit Oslo anymore. We will inform them that India is the safest country they should choose to live", Sikha Chakraborty said.

Monotosh Chakraborty, grandpa of the kids, said he would advise his son-in law not to visit any Scandinavian country anymore.

The agreement between Indian government through its mission in Norway, Municipality of Norway, Norwegian Childcare Services, the parents (Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya) and their lawyer named Anurup's brother as the primary caretaker of the two children, official sources said in New Delhi.

The agreement said the uncle, Arunabha, has agreed to the parents wish and is aware of the responsibility and he will be the children's primary caretaker, the sources said.

The family said that the President Pratibha Patil was earlier urged to take up the matter with the Norwegian government.

Post new comment

<form action="/comment/reply/121968" accept-charset="UTF-8" method="post" id="comment-form"> <div><div class="form-item" id="edit-name-wrapper"> <label for="edit-name">Your name: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="60" name="name" id="edit-name" size="30" value="Reader" class="form-text required" /> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-mail-wrapper"> <label for="edit-mail">E-Mail Address: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <input type="text" maxlength="64" name="mail" id="edit-mail" size="30" value="" class="form-text required" /> <div class="description">The content of this field is kept private and will not be shown publicly.</div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-comment-wrapper"> <label for="edit-comment">Comment: <span class="form-required" title="This field is required.">*</span></label> <textarea cols="60" rows="15" name="comment" id="edit-comment" class="form-textarea resizable required"></textarea> </div> <fieldset class=" collapsible collapsed"><legend>Input format</legend><div class="form-item" id="edit-format-1-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-1"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-1" name="format" value="1" class="form-radio" /> Filtered HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Allowed HTML tags: <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd></li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> <div class="form-item" id="edit-format-2-wrapper"> <label class="option" for="edit-format-2"><input type="radio" id="edit-format-2" name="format" value="2" checked="checked" class="form-radio" /> Full HTML</label> <div class="description"><ul class="tips"><li>Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.</li><li>Lines and paragraphs break automatically.</li></ul></div> </div> </fieldset> <input type="hidden" name="form_build_id" id="form-73785d53074f518e9116a5e9ed1fc450" value="form-73785d53074f518e9116a5e9ed1fc450" /> <input type="hidden" name="form_id" id="edit-comment-form" value="comment_form" /> <fieldset class="captcha"><legend>CAPTCHA</legend><div class="description">This question is for testing whether you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.</div><input type="hidden" name="captcha_sid" id="edit-captcha-sid" value="88842780" /> <input type="hidden" name="captcha_response" id="edit-captcha-response" value="NLPCaptcha" /> <div class="form-item"> <div id="nlpcaptcha_ajax_api_container"><script type="text/javascript"> var NLPOptions = {key:'c4823cf77a2526b0fba265e2af75c1b5'};</script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://call.nlpcaptcha.in/js/captcha.js" ></script></div> </div> </fieldset> <span class="btn-left"><span class="btn-right"><input type="submit" name="op" id="edit-submit" value="Save" class="form-submit" /></span></span> </div></form>