Fahad Edhi said they had been assured by the Indian government that they could remain in Delhi till the DNA tests were done and that if they were negative, Geeta would be placed in safe custody.
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Her story came to light after the release of Salman Khan starrer “Bajrangi Bhaijaan” in which the hero unites a girl separated from her Pakistani mother who was visiting India.
He said on the institutions identified are in Delhi and Indore.
Mahto, in his late 50s, had seen Geeta on television and claimed two months ago that she was his daughter Hira.
Geeta will undergo DNA testing before being handed over to the family, the Indian foreign ministry said last week. “We will have scientific proof before handing her to any family”, Swaraj told the Mail.
She would point at maps of India, especially to an area in the south of Jharkhand until she was able to finally communicate she was from India, not Pakistan.
Geeta was clearly jubilant where she’d spent most of her time, as she left the Edhi shelter house in Karachi. After meeting her, he tweeted, “Welcome Geeta”.
Mr Edhi added that there was confusion regarding Geeta’s family in Bihar, but hoped it would be clarified on the basis of a DNA test.
Upon learning that Bilqis was born in Junagadh’s Bantwa area in Gujarat, the Prime Minister invited her to visit Junagadh along with her family.
Geeta was only seven years old when she was found sitting in the Samjhauta Express, the only train that runs from India to Pakistan, which was at a platform in Lahore, Nobody knew where she had come from.
More than a decade ago, Geeta was found by Pakistan border troops, alone and weeping, near the border.
She was believed to have strayed into Pakistani territory by mistake, but could not remember or explain exactly where she was from. Pakistani police handed her over to the Edhi Foundation.
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“Everything we have done so far has been with the full knowledge and concurrence of Geeta and Edhi Foundation”, he told media in New Delhi.
