“I will pass the DNA test”, Mahato said.
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Geeta will fly to Delhi, where she hopes to be reunited with her loved ones. “We will take them (members of Edhi foundation) to Ajmer Sharif, to Nizamuddin Auliya, wherever they want to go”, she said.
Vikas Swarup, Spokesperson of the External Affairs Ministry, last week announced the schedule of flight PK 272, which will bring the “daughter of India’ as she has been referred to since the Narendra Modi Government took up the case with Pakistani authorities”.
Geeta landed in New Delhi from Karachi and was accompanied by members of Edhi Foundation, a social welfare organisation that has been looking after her since 2003. She was found by police and sent to a state-run shelter.
Though the Pakistan High Commission was to hold a reception for Geeta in the evening, it was cancelled after a high intensity quake emanating in Afghanistan also hit Pakistan on Monday afternoon.
“Indian national Geeta left Karachi for New Delhi today (Monday)”.
The girl, who was found by Pakistan rangers in 2003-2004 near Samjhauta Express, claims that she lives on a border somewhere between Telangana and Jharkhand border and her house number has C193 numeric.
23-year-old Geeta has been staying at the Edhi Foundation shelter home here for over a decade.
The Indian High Commission said here on Sunday that Geeta, a deaf and mute Indian woman who had crossed over to Pakistan accidentally 15 years back, would be handed over to her family only if their DNA test matched.
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The govt has made a decision to carry out DNA testing to verify Geeta’s parents following which she will be handed over to the family.
