Indian child s custody Sushma contacts envoy in Norway

New Delhi, Dec 22 : External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday got in touch with India s Ambassador to Norway following reports that a five-year-old Indian child was separated from his parents, who have been accused of beating him up."I have asked the Indian Ambassador in Norway to send me a report," Sushma Swaraj tweeted.According to reports, the child was taken from his kindergarten school on December 13 without the parents being informed and is being kept at a children s welfare home some 150 km away from Norwegian capital Oslo.His mother, Gurvinderjit Kaur, was also taken into custody and was subjected to interrogation.The child s father, Anil Kumar, who runs an Indian restaurant, has denied all the allegations and said that his son was asthmatic.This is the third such case in Norway involving Indian children.In 2011, a three-year-old and and a one-year-old were separated from their parents but were later reunited when the UPA government took up the issue with Norwegian authorities.In another case of alleged child abuse in December 2012, a seven-year-old and a two-year-old were separated from their parents. The mother got a 15-month prison term and the father was jailed for 18 months.The two children were sent to the custody of their grandparents in Hyderabad.