Aug 08 , 2015
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Four Indian families claim Geeta as their daughter
NEW DELHI: Four families in India have claimed that Geeta is their daughter, Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj tweeted on Saturday.
In a series of tweets the Indian External Affairs Minister said the families were from Punjab, Bihar, Jharkhand and UP. Swaraj has requested the chief ministers of these states to verify and report.
“Geeta conveyed to Indian High Commissioner by gestures that they are seven brothers and sisters,” Swaraj said.
According to Swaraj during her meeting with the Indian High Commissioner Geeta said she had visited a temple with her father and then wrote down “Vaishno Devi”.
Necessary formalities are being completed to bring Geeta back to India and Sushma Swaraj appealed to her followers’ on Twitter to help locate Geeta’s family.
Deaf and mute, Geeta has been stuck in Pakistan for 13 years, unable to return to her native India because she cannot remember or explain exactly where she is from.
Following fresh media coverage the Indian government this week pledged to bring her home, in an echo of a smash-hit Bollywood film.
"Bajrangi Bhaijaan", featuring Indian superstars Salman Khan and Kareena Kapoor, tells the mirror image of Geeta's story -- a mute young Pakistani woman who ends up trapped in India.
Geeta, aged in her early 20s, lives in a women's shelter in Karachi run by the Edhi Foundation, Pakistan's largest welfare organisation. News of her plight surfaced in 2012 but no progress was made in tracing her roots.
Courtesy www.thenews.com.pk