Five years after return from Pakistan, hearing-and-speech impaired woman searches for family in Maharashtra
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Geeta was seven or eight years’ outdated when she was discovered sitting alone in the Samjhauta Express at Lahore station by Pakistan Rangers round 20 years in the past.
Geeta, the Indore-based hearing-and-speech impaired woman who returned to India from Pakistan in 2015 after staying there for a number of years, has come to Nanded in Maharashtra with the hope of discovering her mother and father.
Geeta was seven or eight years’ outdated when she was discovered sitting alone in the Samjhauta Express at Lahore station by Pakistan Rangers round 20 years in the past. She was adopted there by an individual from Edhi Foundation.
She was introduced again to India on October 26, 2015 following efforts made by then External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, who referred to as her Hindustan ki beti (India’s daughter). Swaraj had additionally met her and guaranteed that the federal government was making each effort to hint her mother and father.
Geeta, believed to be round 30 years outdated now, is at the moment dwelling on the ‘Anand Service Society’, an NGO working for disabled individuals, in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore metropolis. Several {couples} have come ahead claiming to be her mother and father, however she has not recognised any of them and none might substantiate their claims.
Government officers from Indore and the NGO have been attempting to hint her dwelling and fogeys. Geeta has additionally not given up hope and visited Nanded on Tuesday together with members of the NGO to look for her dwelling and family.
During an interplay with reporters in Nanded with the assistance of the NGO’s signal language skilled Gyanendra Purohit, who has accompanied her, Geeta mentioned she has been looking for her mother and father.
She conveyed that her dwelling was close to a railway station with a hospital, temple and river close by. Mr. Purohit mentioned they’ve come to Nanded in this context.
“A train called Sachkhand Express runs from Nanded to Amritsar, and the Samjhauta Express, in which she was found, operates from Amritsar to Pakistan,” he mentioned.
“A town called Basar in Telangana, located around 100km from Nanded, resembles the place Geeta describes as her childhood home, so we came here,” Mr. Purohit mentioned.
Nanded’s police inspector Dwarkadas Chikhlikar advised PTI that their group was offering all assist to Geeta, Mr. Purohit and others accompanying her.
“Our team accompanied her during the search and it will work with the NGO members as long as Geeta is here,” he mentioned.
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