The baby, Ashvid, was handed over by child welfare officials to foster care last week.
Jaipur:
The two-month-old son of an Indian couple in New Jersey has been placed in foster care, relatives said, after the infant boy was taken to hospital with severe head injuries.
Ashish Pareek, originally from Jaipur, works with outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services in Jersey City. His wife, Vidisha, delivered the baby in October. They have been living in the US since August.
Last month, Mrs Pareek was carrying the baby at home when he slipped from her hands, said her husband's brother, Abhishek Pareek, to NDTV in Jaipur. He says the baby then hit his head on a TV stand and fell hard on the floor and was immediately rushed by Mrs Pareek to hospital where he was diagnosed with serious internal injuries to his head.
After treatment at two different hospitals, the baby, Ashvid, reportedly recovered, but was handed over by child welfare officials to foster care last week.
"It was an accident but the US authorities are saying that our family tried to harm the child. US authorities are saying the child has been treated in an inhuman way and so cannot be handed over to the parents. But this is untrue, it was an accident," said Abhishek Pareek in Jaipur.
In 2012, the two children of an Indian couple living in Norway were placed in foster care, creating a huge diplomatic row between the countries. India said child welfare officials were culturally insensitive to the traditions of Indian parents. The children, Abhigyan and Aishwarya Bhattacharya were finally sent back to relatives in Bengal after nearly a year of being separated from their parents.
The family's letter to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj:
Ashish Pareek, originally from Jaipur, works with outsourcing giant Tata Consultancy Services in Jersey City. His wife, Vidisha, delivered the baby in October. They have been living in the US since August.
After treatment at two different hospitals, the baby, Ashvid, reportedly recovered, but was handed over by child welfare officials to foster care last week.
In 2012, the two children of an Indian couple living in Norway were placed in foster care, creating a huge diplomatic row between the countries. India said child welfare officials were culturally insensitive to the traditions of Indian parents. The children, Abhigyan and Aishwarya Bhattacharya were finally sent back to relatives in Bengal after nearly a year of being separated from their parents.
The family's letter to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj:
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