Deaf and mute Indian girl Geeta, who accidently crossed the border into Pakistan as a child nearly 12 years ago and presently living in Karachi with the Edhi Foundation, will finally return to India on October 26, the Ministry of External Affairs announced on Friday.
Soon after her return, Government will get her DNA test conducted with the family whom she has identified as hers to verify the parentage. If DNA matches, Geeta will be handed over to the family else she will be shifted to a special institute for the deaf and mute women in Indore.
“Geeta will come back to India on October 26. She will be accompanied by five members of Edhi Foundation who will be treated as State guests,” MEA Spokesperson Vikas Swarup said.
Geeta was reportedly just seven or eight years old when she was found sitting alone on the Samjhauta Express by the Pakistan Rangers 15
years ago at the lahore railway station. Police took her to the Edhi Foundation in lahore and later she was shifted to Karachi.
On the direction of External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan TCA Raghavan, and his wife had visited Geeta in August. Officials said out of three photographs sent by the Indian High Commission in Islamabad, Geeta identified one of her father, step-mother and siblings. This family lives in Bihar.