Norway row: Couple get over 1 year in jail

An Indian software professional and his wife were on Tuesday held guilty of "serious child abuse" and sentenced to jail for 18 months and 15 months respectively.

V Chandra Sekhar and his wife Anupama, who were arrested last month, have a couple of days to go in for appeal, and their counsel indicated they would do so.

"In the view of the Oslo District Court, the couple deliberately burned their son's leg with a hot spoon or similar object, with the result that the child had burn marks measuring approximately 3x5 cm," an official statement said.

The court said that on one occasion the parents had even threatened to brand their seven-year-old son's tongue with a hot spoon. "The court also found that it had been proven that the parents had on several occasions hit the child with a belt or similar object... The abuse took place over six to seven months," it said.

The couple's relatives in Hyderabad have asked the Indian government to intervene.

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