NEW DELHI: Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said on Saturday that India is completing the necessary formalities to bring back Geeta, a hearing- and speech-impaired Indian girl stranded in Karachi, to India, according to media sources.
“We are completing the necessary formalities to bring Geeta back to India,” she tweeted.
Ms Swaraj also tweeted that during the past few days “four families from Punjab, Bihar, Jharkhand and UP have claimed Geeta as their daughter” and that she had requested the chief ministers of the states to “verify and report”.
“Geeta conveyed to Indian high commissioner by gestures that they are seven brothers and sisters. She also conveyed that she had visited a temple with her father. Then she wrote down ‘Vaishno Devi’. With these details, please help locate Geeta’s family,” the minister tweeted.
On Tuesday, the minister announced that the government would bring Geeta back to India after Indian High Commissioner T.C.A. Raghavan met Geeta at the Edhi Foundation in Karachi where the young woman has been staying for the past 12 years after she accidentally strayed into Pakistani territory, sources further added.
