External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Saturday said the Narendra Modi government was completing all necessary formalities to bring back Gita, the deaf and mute Indian woman stuck in Pakistan for more than a decade after losing contact with her family.
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“Gita conveyed to the Indian High Commissioner by gestures that they are seven brothers and sisters”.
She said that a few days later, Savita went missing and a report was also lodged with the police station concerned, Ganesh said. Raghavan along with his wife had flown to Karachi to meet Geeta on Sushma’s instructions.
During her meeting with the Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, TCA Raghavan, this past week, Geeta had conveyed that she had visited the Vaishno Devi shrine in the foothills of the Trikuta Mountains in Jammu with her father, and that she has six siblings. “Then she wrote Vaihno Devi”, said Ms Swaraj. “With these particulars, please assist find Gita’s family”, the minister tweeted.
However, when Geeta was shown pictures of the couple she refused to recognize the couple as her parents.
Gita is believed to have mistakenly crossed into the Pakistani territory as a child.
She was around eight years old when she was found by the Pakistan Rangers 15 years ago from Lahore railway station, according to reports.
The girl, who is now 23-year-old, started living in Karachi after all efforts to trace her family in India remained unsuccessful. Through an interpreter at the Edhi Foundation she said that her mother wears a saree and not a shalwar kameez.
Bilquis Edhi, who runs the Edhi Foundation, has named her Gita.
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Devi claimed that Gita strayed into Pakistan probably by a train. Experts say that she could belong to some vulnerable family in Jharkhand.
