LAHORE, June 21: Two minors of Pakistan-origin parents have been repatriated to Norway by the embassy. The embassy of Norway, which filed a writ petition for the recovery of the children before the Lahore High Court , submitted a report on Monday that a person representing the father handed them over to the staff and they have been flown to Norway to join their mother.

Hannan Mumtaz, 8, and Khaqan Mumtaz, 7, were reportedly kidnapped by their father Nasim Mumtaz from Norway on March 22, 2003. After the failure of police to recover them, the chief justice on June 16 ordered that their father and members of his family should be arrested, their shopping plaza in Gujrat sealed and bank account frozen.

The court observed that the relatives of the accused, including his brother Farooq Riaz, sister and maternal grandparents of the children were not cooperating in the case.

Gujrat SSP and Islamabad DIG were directed to locate the children because the court came to know that the accused had taken his children to his sister's home in the federal capital.

The court disposed the writ petition off on Monday. Nasim Mumtaz and Atiya Parveen, both from Gujrat, married in Norway but were separated. A Norwegian court gave the custody of their children the mother and allowed the father to meet them. The father met the children on March 22 last year and was supposed to hand them over to their mother on March 27. But he brought them to Pakistan.