They met at the chief minister’s official residence during which Kejriwal interacted with the girl through sign language.
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On Monday, Geeta flew into New Delhi on Pakistan global Airlines to begin a new life on her home soil.
Geeta, center, a deaf and mute Indian woman arrives at the airport in New Delhi, India, Monday, October 26, 2015.
Now believed to be in her early 20s, Geeta has remained under the care of Pakistan’s largest welfare organization, the Edhi Foundation, living in a shelter in the port city of Karachi.
“I welcome a daughter of India on Indian land”, said Ms. Swaraj, seated beside Geeta, who responded through an interpreter that she was very happy to be in India.
He said the Pakistan and Indian governments have completed all formalities for Geeta’s journey back home.
Geeta, being comforted by volunteer of EDHI foundation, Karachi. Assuming she was from Pakistan, officials placed her in a children’s home in Lahore and renamed her Fatima.
“She is not really separating from us”, he said. “Geeta arrives in New Delhi accompanied by members of Edhi Foundation” and the tweet is as follows.
Swaraj said Geeta would be placed in an institution if DNA test results confirmed that the family was not hers and would keep searching for her real one. “Was truly a delight to spend time with you today”, he added.
The government will now carry out a DNA test to ascertain if the family, who met her in Delhi, is really hers.
Geeta’s story came to limelight after the release of Salman Khan starer “Bajrangi Bhaijaan” in which the hero unites a girl separated from her Pakistani mother who was visiting India.
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External affairs ministry spokesperson Vikas Swarup said on Saturday that Geeta has already identified one family as possibly being that of her parents.
