UDUPI: The Human Rights Protection Fou ndation on Saturday urged the external affairs ministry to heed the cry of a mother who wanted to get her two minor children (a boy and a girl) back from their father who allegedly took them from India to Abu Dhabi Rishana Nilofer of Ullal alleged that her husband, Mohammed Shanib, employed in the Gulf as an engineer, came to Mangaluru on September 8 for the delivery of their third child.At 4pm on September 18, Shanib took the two children out on the pretext of buying them ice cream. The same day, he took the children to Abu Dhabi by a night flight without her knowledge. After landing at Abu Dhabi, around 10pm, he told her the children were with him in Abu Dhabi.For the next two days he updated her about the children through WhatsApp images. After that, there was no communication and neither she nor her relatives have any idea about them.Ravindranath Shanbhag, president, Human Rights Protection Foundation, Udupi said, ‘We demand that the Indian embassy take immediate action to bring the children back otherwise there is a possibility of the mother’s life being endangered. HRPF has submitted a detailed report about this to Sushma Swaraj , external affairs minister. Shanib has taken all documents of the children. Their marriage was solemnized with the consent of both families. Though some Muslim origination tried to resolve the problem, there has been no result. On October 1, she approached HRPF with her newborn girl child with her saga of suffering.”He added, “We guided her to go to the Jamaat and resolve the dispute peacefully. We also advised her to register a police complaint. Even after two months, community elders couldn’t resolve this dispute.”Lathiff, in-charge, Samman Counseling Centre, said, “We contacted Kannadiga friends in Abu Dhabi who have promised to resolve this dispute amic ably. However, Shanib is not cooperating, and he says it’s a family issue and others should not interfere. He should give the children back as no law supports a one-year old child to be with the father. Even as per the Muslim Sunni sect, a girl child shall be in the custody of the mother till she attains puberty and a boy child till he’s seven.”Mehbooba, a social worker said, “When they went to Ullal police, they directed them to women’s police station at Pandeshwar, where the case was registered.”

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