Ariha Case: Shock to Indian couple from German court, child handed over to local agency

A district court in Germany’s Pankow refused to return 28-month-old Indian girl Ariah Shah to her biological parents and handed her over to the German juvenile service Jugendmutt in two separate rulings on June 13. The court rejected Dhara and Bhavesh Shah’s request that the child be returned directly to them or, at least, to a third party, the Indian Welfare Services.

The court announced that Berlin’s Central Youth Welfare Office would be responsible for making decisions regarding her stay, acting as her temporary guardian. The parents had previously requested custody, but later withdrew the offer.

Let us tell you that in fact, Germany’s Child Services took away a 2-year-old girl on the suspicion that she was being physically abused by her parents. But as of February 2022, she may not be able to live with her parents again, despite the criminal charges being dropped. The family alleges that the center in which the girl was kept in Berlin for 20 months. Now he has been picked up from there and sent to the mentally retarded center. The mental condition of the child is being treated as bad.