new delhi they broke down as they spoke about little aishwarya 1 and abhigyan 3 who were taken away by norwegian child welfare service barnevarne in may last year the kids maternal grandparents manatosh and shikha chakrabarti tried all means to be reunited with the children including seeking help of the external affairs ministry weary and angry they have come to delhi from kolkata to protest in front of the embassy of norway starting monday they are demanding that the government get the children released from the custody of norwegian child care service before march 8 the childrens visa expires on march 8 we have had enough and we want our kids back no matter what the norwegian government is committing a human rights violation by snatching children away from their mother we know that most child rights agencies are with us in this crusade said shikha she vainly tried to fight back tears as she recounted the familys ordeal on being separated from the kids on may 11 2011 do you know the pain of a mother who has been separated from the baby she has just given birth to aishwarya was taken away when she was four months old and still being fed on mothers milk my daughter sagarika went through immense mental and physical pain she said bernevarne took the children away from their parents who were deemed unfit to look after them on what basis have they drawn the conclusion that the parents are not fit to bring up their children they even alleged that my daughter sagarika was mentally unfit to take care of them but they did not have any evidence to support these claims in fact my daughter is a graduate in clinical nutrition and dietetics and could not have been better equipped to attend to the children they were so healthy and happy shikha added sagarika also got medical certificates from local doctors who certified her to be fit to raise the kids she said manatosh recounted the time when the parents and grandparents met the kids at stavanger for an hour after almost three months its was a moment i will never forget after an hour was up they almost wrenched the kid away from the mothers arms the kids have become quieter and look scared abhigyan has forgotten his mother tongue bengali and aishwarya can barely recognize her parents we fear they are going through a lot of trauma he said in november last year a norwegian court had ordered that the children would live in a foster home till they turned 18 since then the kids have been kept with three foster families how can the children have a normal upbringing if their foster parents get changed so many times the third time they kept aishwarya and abhigyan in separate homes which i am sure will impact them added manatosh the chakrabartis were recently informed that the norwegian child care services have appealed for extension of the childrens visa