A court in Norway is due to rule in the case of an Indian couple arrested for allegedly abusing their child.
The couple are charged with “gross or repeated maltreatment” of the seven-year-old boy. The couple and their family deny the charges.
Chandrasekhar Vallabhaneni, a software professional, and his wife Anupama have been remanded in custody.
Mr Vallabhaneni had “threatened” to send the child to India for wetting his pants in the school bus, reports say.
Police in Norway have proposed a jail term of 15 months for the mother and 18 months for the father.
India has said the incident relates to a private citizen and Norway’s local laws, but added that its Norway mission will do whatever is “appropriate” in the case.
Indians have recently fallen foul of Norway’s strict parenting laws.
In April, two Indian children who were taken away from their parents finally returned to India after a Norwegian court agreed to hand them over to their uncle.
Norway’s Child Welfare Agency (CWA) had taken three-year-old Abhigyan and one-year-old Aishwariya Bhattacharya into custody in May 2011 alleging their parents did not adequately look after them.
The parents said that “cultural differences” were behind the agency’s decision and the incident caused a diplomatic row between Norway and India.
The case received extensive media attention in India and provoked public anger, with the Indian government saying that the children should be allowed to live in their own cultural and linguistic environment.
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