The External Affairs Ministry has told Ranjana Kumar, mother of NRI Annie Johansson whose 11-year-old son Domenic has been taken in custody by Social Welfare Board in Sweden in 2009, that the government was gathering information on the matter, including legal aspects.
The External Affairs Ministry has told Ranjana Kumar, mother of NRI Annie Johansson whose 11-year-old son Domenic has been taken in custody by Social Welfare Board in Sweden in 2009, that the government was gathering information on the matter, including legal aspects.
''Full information regarding the case is being gathered, including legal aspects, so that the Government of India can decide on its future course of action. You will be kept informed of further development,'' Tarika Roy, Director (central Europe) of MEA, said in a communication to Ranjana Kumar at her Ahmednagar residence in Maharashtra.
Kumar had written to the MEA on behalf of her daughter requesting for intervention for Domenic's release from the custody of the Social welfare Board in Gotland, Sweden.
The boy was placed in the custody of the Swedish Social Welfare Board on grounds of lack of parental care the child deserves as per the Swedish law.
West Bengal Governor M K Narayanan was earlier urged to take up the alleged detention of Domenic months after the boy's mother sought Indian government's intervention in the matter.
Kolkata-based NGO "India's Smile", which claimed to have brought to light the custody row over the Swedish boy Domenic, similar to the recent NRI couple custody row in Norway, said it had forwarded to the Governor a copy of a letter from Fam Christer Johansson, father of the boy in Sweden, for his intervention.
The NGO quoted a reply from Raj Bhavan to say that the Special Secretary to the Governor had forwarded the letter to the External Affairs Ministry secretary a copy of the NGO's memorandum (dated April 26) for consideration.
''The memorandum is self-explanatory regarding prayer for intervention in the matter of handing over the children of NRI mother held up by the state authority of Sweden Gotland Municipal Social Welfare Committee,'' the Governor's special secretary said in the communication.
The boy's father told the NGO that he had earlier lodged a complaint with the Swedish authorities that "Domenic is in danger. He is fed vaccines and has dropped in weight a lot in the past few months. This is a clear case of psychological torture (of the boy)".
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