new delhi the children of nri couple in noway anurup and sagarika bhattacharya will be handed over to their uncle anurups brother accoring to reports the lawyer of the couple told the indian embassy in oslo that anurab bhattacharya anurups brother will take custody of the children anurab will travel to norway when the custody case comes up in the court the agreement is in final stages of negotiation india had on monday conveyed to norway that it should work out a settlement with the immediate family of two kids who are under foster care on the orders of a local court there external affairs minister s m krishna who spoke to his norwegian counterpart earlier in the day told reporters that he has come to the conclusion after the talks that a reasonable settlement can be worked out though the indian government was anxious that a solution be found at the earliest this settlement has to be worked out with the immediate family of the children krishna said when asked if any other solution to the vexed issue was acceptable to the indian government threeyearold abhigyan and oneyearold aishwarya children of anurup and sagarika bhattacharya an nri couple living in stavanger norway were taken under protective care by barnevarne norwegian child welfare services in may on grounds that they were not looked after properly by their parents barnevarne has placed them in foster parental care as per the directive of the local norwegian court mandated under norwegian laws but after my talks with the local embassy and with the norwegian foreign minister i have come to this conclusion that a reasonable settlement of this issue can be worked out our anxiety is it should be worked out at the earliest so that the children are brought back to the protective umbrella of their biological parents and grandparents krishna said but i dont think after my talks with my counterpart in norway that taking into consideration the kind of relationship we have between the two governments it should be difficult for us to work out a settlement he added pointing to the child care mechanism in india krishna said we have a fairly legitimate institutional mechanism to protect the rights of the children we can always use that in order to protect the rights of the children asked about the visa of the couple that is likely to end in the first week of march this year the external affairs minister said in view of the healthy relationship that the two countries had norway was willing to accommodate the indian government to the extent possible within the limits of jurisdiction if there are visa issues i think it can be worked out he said the point to be noted and understood is that a court is seized of the matter in norway and on the orders of that court the children are in the foster care unit in norway hence when the courts are involved we have to work