Indian mission offers to provide consular help to arrested couple
Indian mission in Oslo has offered to provide consular assistance to the Indian couple in Norway arrested allegedly for trying to discipline their 7-year-old son for wetting his pants.
According to the information with the Indian mission, V Chandrasekhar, a software professional from Andhra Pradesh, and his wife, Anupama were taken into custody by the police in Oslo, official sources said here.
They said the mission has offered to provide consular assistance to the family, who is also in the process of filing their appeal through their lawyer there.
However, more details were awaited in the matter. The Indian Embassy in Oslo is in touch with the lawyer and is awaiting more information from the lawyer
The police arrested Mr Chandrasekhar, a TCS employee nine months after the child complained to his school teachers that his parents were threatening to send him back to India for his acts, Mr Chandrasekhar’s nephew V Sailender, who is in Hyderabad, claimed.
“My uncle had no idea about the case registered against him initially. He came to Hyderabad along with his wife and children in July and went back to Oslo in the last week of October. Then he was served a notice to appear before the authorities along with his wife,” he said.
“My aunt also went to Oslo on November 23 and the couple appeared before the authorities concerned. On November 28, we were informed by my uncle’s neighbours in Oslo that they were arrested and remanded,” Mr Sailender told PTI.
The boy was found wetting his pants in the school bus which was reported to his father, who in turn “threatened” the child that he would be sent back to India if he repeated that again, Mr Sailender said, adding the boy was also found bringing toys from school.
The incident comes barely months after another row involving an Indian couple and their children.
Abhigyan (3) and Aishwarya (4) were taken away from their parents — Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya — by Norway’s Child Welfare Society in May last year on grounds of “emotional disconnect”.
After Indian diplomatic push and Norwegian government’s intervention, a court in that country in April ended months of custody row by handing over the two children to their India-based uncle who had to travel to Oslo to bring them back.
Keywords: Norway, Chandrasekhar, Oslo, parent-child relations, Child Welfare Society, parenting
These parents don't deserve a jail sentence. Having said that, they
should be more receptive to their child's needs. Being a small child in
a foreign country isn't easy.
Norway needs to understand and acknowledge the cultural differences.
We Indians want to move to civilized counties, but we do not get civilized thats the
problem inherent in us. At least younger generation is far better when compared to
our ancestors. Parenting any way needs counseling like marriage, which will all be
new for people who come from India, but when we have to move on with the place
where we chose to live.
Is that the way to treat a small boy who is having issues? Instead of
offering love and warmth, they "threaten" the kid to be sent back to
India??!! What kind of monstrous parents will do such things? Those
parents absolutely deserve it.
my friend & wife were arrested & spent 1 night in prison- in canada. they had hit their 14 yr son - who was watching adult pics on his cellphone.
Good news, Indian cannot only earm money in west they must live as socially educated people. I experience same in USA, they live like people from caves, if they do not like west it is time to go back
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