In a series of tweets the Indian External Affairs Minister said the families were from Punjab, Bihar, Jharkhand and UP.
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Swaraj on Saturday tweeted that the Indian government is completing all necessary formalities to bring her back.
Today, Minister of External Affairs Sushma Swaraj through a social messaging site said the government is trying every possible way to bring back Geeta to India.
Using her fingers and facial expression, Geeta has communicated that she has seven brothers and four sisters, but she has not able to provide information which could help in finding her home. “Then she wrote Vaihno Devi”, said Ms Swaraj.
Geeta, the estranged deaf and mute Indian girl in Pakistan, might be reunited with her family in India after all. Two families, one living in the Uttar Pradesh state and the other in Jharkhand state suspect that Geeta is their daughter.
But uniting Geeta with her family is a challenge; for one, she can not speak. The family in Amritsar claims Pooja alias Geeta use to beg at the railway station and must have accidentally boarded the peace train that goes to Pakistan from the Attari border in Punjab.
Geeta’s case has received renewed after Bollywood movie Bajrangi Bhaijaan hit the screens. “He is unable to work in Pakistan and lives with the fear of being discovered as an “illegal” resident”, Burney, Pakistan’s former federal minister for human rights who now runs Ansar Burney Trust worldwide, said.
“With several small children to take care of and the death of parents-in-law and failing health of her husband Hafiz Viqar Ahmad, diagnosed with complications, she found it hard to plan a trip to Pakistan to bring her son back”. Geeta has high resemblance with “her mother” Ram Durali. “While we are working out the details of her stay, we are also looking for plans to offer her skills training and coaching so that she can be self-reliant”, said the official.
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According to Anara Devi and her husband Ramraj Gautam of Thammohan village under Maheshganj police station here, the girl is their daughter Savita who went missing since 2004, IG Law and order A Satish Ganesh said.
