ARRESTS: Norway police arrest Indian couple for threatening to deport son who peed his pants

A photo inside a Tata Consultancy Services’ building. An Indian employee of the company has been arrested in Norway along with his wife for chiding their seven-year-old son. Panta Astiazaran/AFP/Getty Images

According to their family, an officer of the Indian embassy met Chandrashekar Vallabhaneni, who is in police custody, in Oslo Friday and assured him full assistance.

According to the received, the officer collected all the details of the case and spoke to Vallabhaneni, an employee of software giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).

Chandrashekhar and his wife Anupama were arrested by police on Monday but their family in India found out about the development on Thursday.

The couple was arrested nine months after their son Sriram, 7, complained to his Norwegian school teachers that his parents were threatening to send him back to India for wetting his pants.

Originally from Krishna district in coastal Andhra, Vallabhaneni was sent to Oslo by his company last year to handle a project. The family returned home in July this year.

Vallabhaneni again left for Norway on Nov. 23 for work. This time he went only with his wife, leaving behind both of his sons. A court in Oslo issued summons and later police arrested them.

Vallabhaneni’s parents and other family members appealed to the state and central governments to intervene.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy directed Chief Secretary Minni Mathew to get in touch with the officials of the ministry of external affairs to seek the release of the couple.